This page is about the tree. For the band of the same name, see Wild Cherry . The Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) is a species of cherry, native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Morocco and Tunisia, and east to southern Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and northern Iran, with a small disjunct population in the western Himalaya.Euro+Med Plantbase Project: [LINK: http://ww2.bgbm.org/_EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=31189&PTRefFk=500000] Prunus aviumDen Virtuella Floran: [LINK: http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/rosa/prunu/prunavi.html] Prunus avium (in Swedish; with [LINK: http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/rosa/prunu/prunaviv.jpg] map) .]]It is a deciduous tree growing to 15-32 m tall, with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter. Young trees show stro