Looks like a Viburnum....

Thanks so much for your reply. I've recently ordered quite a few of the more readily available species, but there are still plenty that I'm looking for seeds for so I'd definitely be interested in what you have available. ~Amanda

Because of the damp, mild climate west of the Cascades, fungal diseases on fruit trees can be common, so it is smart to select varieties that are known for their disease resistance. The primary issues with cherries is more focused on the ornamental or flowering kinds - fruiting cherries actually do pretty well here with minimal issues. Some of the most popular kinds or cherries: Lapins (self-fertile), Rainier, Stella, Sweetheart, any of the sour cherries. Avoid Bing - they are prone to splitting here. Apples: Chehalis, Liberty, Akane, Honeycrisp, Fuji, Jonagold, Gravenstein (has some disease issues but still a very popular selection). Avoid Red or Golden Delicious - they don't do well west of the Cascades. Pears - any of the popular European and Asian pears are fine for this area. Highly recommended European pears are Rescue, Orcas, Bartlett, Bosc and Ubileen. Chojuro, Shinseiki and Nijisseiki (aka 20th Century) are among the most popular Asian selections but any seem to do well here About the only peach recommended for this area is Frost, which is also leaf curl resistant. Apricots, nectarines and any of the hybrid fruits (pluots, apriums, plumcots, etc.) are just not suited to this climate and tend not to be successful. I would urge you to locate and purchase your trees from a local nursery or garden center, not from a box store like Costco or Home Depot. Local nurseries tend to carry fruit tree varieties best suited to the rather unique growing conditions of the Pacific Northwest, whereas the larger box stores seldom offer the most regionally appropriate choices. There are a couple of great resources available to fruit growers west of the Cascades. The first is the WSU Fruit Trial website, which is a compilation of about 5 decades of research into the best fruit varieties for west of the Cascades. The second is Raintree Nursery, located in Morton, WA by Mt. St. Helens. Raintree is a huge mail order fruit source, selling all across the country, however they also specialize in fruit types best for our area. They are happy to chat over the phone to help you pick what will work best for you.

"The difference between the Pacific Northwest and the Atlantic Northeast is that the waters off the Atlantic are warmer, since the ocean currents are moving northward, clockwise from the Gulf of Mexico." This is demonstrably not true in winter. It was a hassle to go find to buoy data - but then reading data from obscenely formatted flat files is part of what I do for a living - and comparing a buoy a similar distance off Massachusetts and Port Orford, OR, the Oregon buoy is about 2C warmer in January. As would be expected. In the very coldest winters ever, the Atlantic coast has frozen as far south as Virginia Beach, VA! Pray tell if you've known of that happened at remotely similar latitudes along the Pacific coast! "This paradoxically leads to colder winters, because the rising warm air off the ocean leads to storm systems that can pull in air from further north" Eh, no. The periodic incursions of very cold air into the northeastern USA actually have more to do with conditions in the Pacific, which is why their frequency is influenced by the ENSO. Their overall capriciousness is influenced by the lack of geographic factors that keep winters in Eastern Asia so generally stable by creating a semi-permanent Siberian high. You will never hear of Beijing getting 2 ft. of snow in a 'northeaster', (東北風暴 LOL) and cities in inland China at the same latitude and elevation of Atlanta have winters that are USDA zone 9b or 10a instead of 7b or 8a. As Atlanta would if it were not for those periodic cold outbreaks that plague most of the CONUS to varying degrees. (no pun intended!) The ocean current from the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf Stream and mostly turns away from the US around North Carolina. Northeast coast is just about as influenced by cold Labrador current. Not that it matters, anyhow...even if the Gulf Stream headed straight for Maine, it isn't as though the climate of Boston would magically become like Sydney, or even Seattle. Unless we remove most of Canada from the face of the Earth and convert it into an ocean LOL. The main difference between climate of the US PNW and northeast is explained by their relative positions on a continent of a planet where mid-latitude winds are westerly - the same factor explaining the differences between western Europe and Siberia, as well as differences between more benign climates like Perth and Sydney, and Cape Town and Durban.