Is it true that a huge cherry was taken out in China?

In early July 2024, shots with the fruits of gigantic sizes were dispersed along social networks. We checked the authenticity of this video.

As reported in the description of the virus video, breeders from East Asia brought cherry (in some publications - cherries) the size of a fist. As evidence, a 7-second video is given on which you can see very large fruits on a tree branch.

The video became popular on different platforms and sites: in Tiktok One of the videos collected more than 6 million views on Pikabu - 466,000, in "VKontakte" - 104,000. It became viral in Telegram, where it was published by channels"Ax 18+"(2.6 million views),"Live broadcast"(834 000),"The ax live"(656 000),"Dual"(317 000) and"KB"(254,000).

The fruits of cherries and cherries are far from the largest in the plant world. In 2021, the media Reportedthat Italian farmers Brought off Cherry of varieties Carmen With the most heavy fruits - 33 g, which is 6 g more than the previous record. Although the mass for the cherries is really impressive (usually Its fruits weigh from 7 to 15 g, Cherry - And at all 5-7 g), this does not look like a “fist” size.

Nevertheless, the result of breeders from Italy to this day Fixed On the website of the Guinness Book of Records. How Reported The Japanese media, similar to the variety several years ago, was taken to the Yamagate Prefecture, and the fruit comparable in size was sold At the auction for 100,000 yen (about $ 630).

“Verified” did not find in large media in Russian, English and Chinese, reports that appeared in 2024 on the removal of a record-large grade of cherries or cherries in China or any other country.

Viral video is the result of installation. In the first fragment against the background, an ordinary cherry (or cherry) on the branches is visible, in the subsequent ones - ColumnarWhich is characterized by massive clusters along large branches, without additional branching and expansion of the crown. At the same time, giant fruits appear only at the beginning of the video.

Using the Google reverse search tool, “tested” discovered shots from this video in the video, which published in February 28, 2024 Instagram, YouTube And Tiktok The Indonesian user of Inspirasi Tanaman Buah (this nickname can be translated as “fruit inspiration”). In each of the social networks, the 19-second video was accompanied by the signature: “It turns out that cherries are growing in Indonesia without problems” (or cherries; in many foreign languages, these concepts do not differ.-approx. Ed.). All three videos became popular and gained hundreds of thousands of views.

However, the fruit blogger from Indonesia, apparently, was not the author of a fragment in which huge cherries are shown. Back in May 2023, a more complete version of the video Published American Tiktok user @love_fruits. In that video, in particular, you can see how two large cherries do not break, but simply remove from the branches, and the rest of the fruits on it are of ordinary size. In the Indonesian video, these frames are cut out.

The color of large fruits (as well as their fruiting) is noticeably different from the rest.

The end of the stalk also looks like Unusual, with a flat cut and an “industrial seam” in diameter.

Even the leaves on the stalks supposedly from one branch differ markedly.

At that moment, when a person filming a video unfolds one of the fruits, the second due to his weight should pull the stalk down, but it is directed to the side.

All this leads to the assumption that two large fruits around which the plot of the viral video and news dedicated to it are built are not real.

Indeed, in online stores you can Buy Many large plastic Cherry, very similar to those shown in the video.

Many visitors to both the American and Indonesian blogs also agreed that plastic cherries are shown in these frames. Probably, the author of the video laid them on a real branch and shot them on camera.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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