Cherry (scientific name: Prunus spp.) is a collective term for several plants in the Rosaceae and Prunus genera. There are only four types of cherries cultivated in the world, namely cherries, European sweet cherries, European sour cherries, and hairy cherries. Among them, cherries, European sweet cherries, and European sour cherries play an important role in production. Trees or shrubs, 2-25 meters tall, with gray white or black brown bark. Twigs gray brown or gray brown, tender branches green, hairless or sparsely furred. Winter buds are oval shaped and hairless. The leaves are ovate, elliptical, or oblong ovate in shape, with a sharp or short pointed tip and a circular or wedge-shaped base.

Cherry originated in China and is now mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Shandong and other places in China. It is also cultivated in Northeast and Yunnan; it is distributed in Europe, Asia and North America. Cherry is often found in forests, shrubs and grasslands on sunny slopes. Cherry has a certain medicinal value, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "snake bite, mash juice drink, and apply it." Cherry is rich in nutrition, high iron content, regular consumption can play a blood tonic effect, but also can improve the phenomenon of dizziness, help deal with waste in the body, so as to enhance the physique.