Sweet Cherry

Sweet Cherry is a U.S. Capsicum annuum sweet pepper sold as a cherry-shaped heirloom grown for its mild flavour, thick walls, and usefulness both fresh and preserved. A dated 2014 horticultural listing already described Sweet Cherry Pepper as a productive, widely adapted plant with round fruit that ripen from green to bright red, showing the name was in documented circulation by then.

Plants are compact to medium and current live listings place them at about 51.0 to 76.5 cm tall. The fruit are small, glossy, round to slightly oblate, and thick-walled, giving the pepper its cherry-like appearance. Exact-name listings describe the plant as productive and suitable for gardens and containers, with green stems, green leaves, and white flowers.

In kitchen use, Sweet Cherry is repeatedly associated with salads, pickling, stuffing, garnishes, and fresh eating. Live seed descriptions emphasise its sweet, fruity flavour and the fact that the fruit can be used both green and fully red, which helps explain why it remains a common sweet cherry type in home-garden seed trade.

Major factual conflict: some live sources treat Sweet Cherry as a specific named U.S. heirloom, while others use sweet cherry pepper more loosely as a general market label for mild cherry-shaped annuum peppers.