Not trying to take any magic from you, but this isn't the life cycle of a cherry.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Why is it fliped in the middle of the first line ?
The fruit also flips due to the increasing weight
They are my all-time favorite!
I found out I became allergic to cherries some weeks ago. :(
I'm very much sorry for you.
Shouldn't have rotated them halfway through the top line. It adds confusion.
Yeah I came here to say the same thing. I had to stare at that for a few seconds before realizing what was going on.
That’s really well done. I don’t see any seams in the background.
I didn't even do any edge correction. I just selected a rectangle and flipped it. If you zoom in and you know where it is you can clearly see it. I guess that's a cool thing about textures like this.
That is what they do on the tree, though.
Seriously!
I was like "that's one heck of a change, what happened in that step??"
They obviously did it because of our general preconception that "flowers point up" and "berries hang down" - but it really bugs me that whoever made the chart decided they were going to cater to that.
Fun fact: plums, peaches, and apricots used to be roughly this size as well, but generations of selective breeding increases the size of the fruit, and the ratio of fruit to seed/pit.
Almonds are also a member of this family, although we don't eat the fruit of the almond (which splits open as it grows), and instead pick out the pit for a little morsel inside. That's also why almond extract and cherry pit extract (sometimes known as bitter cherry) have similar flavor notes.
Why not selective breed cherries to be big too?
Not every crop/species/cultivar respond well to selective breeding for size.
I don't know the details of cherries in particular, but I know of another example of one stubborn crop not responding to attempts to increase the size: the skirret. Historical records indicate that carrots, parsnips, and skirrets were similar root vegetables that were grown for food, but breeders had much more success making carrots and parsnips bigger, with less success with the skirret. As a result, carrots and parsnips became more popular, and the skirret faded into obscurity in most cultures.
What do you mean "TIL"? This is how most fruits grow, how did you not know that?
Here is a positive rephrasing of your comment :
I'm glad you found it out! And since most of the fruit grows like that, you really learned something useful.
I'm not a fruitologist
Erst weiß wie Schnee
Dann grün wie Klee
Dann rot wie Blut
Schmeckt allen Kindern gut
First white as snow
then green as clover
then red as blood
tastes good to all children
So that’s why cherries have the stem.
I like how the cherry grows once more right before dying... ;-)
Should end as a bottle of cheap wine.
Wine is made from grapes...
Depends on Your definition of wine. In my country anything made from fermented fruit is called wine. My friend once made wine out of carrots.
My father used to make a very excellent Cherry Liqueur from the tree in his yard.