Stella is a cultivar of cherry developed in British Columbia, Canada.

[2] The Stella variety was the result of a breeding program at the John Innes Institute in Norwich, England.

[3] One of the seedlings was crossed with the Lambert variety at the Summerland Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia in 1956 by K. O. Lapins (namesake of the Lapins cherry cultivar), and the resulting hybrid tree was named "Stella" in 1968.

[8] The fruit of the Stella cultivar is large, heart-shaped, and dark red, with overall excellent quality.

It retains the parent variety's self-fertility and fruits early and heavily.