Prunus avium, commonly called
wild cherry,
sweet cherry,
bird cherry, or
gean, is a species of
cherry native to
Europe,
Anatolia,
Maghreb, and western
Asia, from the
British Isles south to
Morocco and
Tunisia, north to the
Trondheimsfjord region in
Norway and east to the
Caucasus and northern
Iran, with a small isolated population in the western
Himalaya. The species is widely cultivated in other regions and has become naturalized in North America and Australia.