Natural vs. Washed Processing: what's the difference?

Natural processing is a method of producing coffee after harvest. Intact coffee cherries (that house the coffee bean inside the cherry) are picked, laid out and dried in the sun, typically on patios or raised beds. Seeds are removed after the cherry has sufficiently dried (at the farmer's discretion), often constantly turned or rotated. The dried seeds expel a unique, typically fruit-forward flavour. 

Washed processing starts very differently. After harvest, the cherry enveloping the seed is removed and the remaining bean submerged into water to ferment and release the last of the flesh. Once completed, the beans are washed again in water before drying on raised beds or patios. This method also produces a different flavour profile.