Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry, bird cherry, or gean, is a species of cherry native to Europe, western Turkey, northwestern Africa, and western Asia, from the British IslesBritish Trees Online south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with a small disjunct population in the western Himalaya.Euro+Med Plantbase Project: Prunus aviumDen Virtuella Floran: Prunus avium (in Swedish; with map) This species, in the rose family (Rosaceae), has a diploid set of sixteen chromosomes (2n=16).