Black Cherry Wood Tree

A mature tree has very broken dark grey to black bark.

Black cherry wood tree.

Lenticels in black cherry are one of many vertically raised pores in the stem of a woody plant that allows gas exchange between the atmosphere and the internal tissues on the bark of a young tree. Also black cherry s inner bark contributed to tonics and cough medicines. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. Characteristics of cherry wood.

Other names used to refer to this species are black cherry rum cherry and mountain black cherry. The leaves are long and shiny resembling a sourwood s. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin smooth and banded resembling a birch. The cherry bark breaks into thin dark plates and raised edges on older wood are described as burnt cornflakes.

Prunus serotina family black cherry stands alone for its commercial value as a lumber wood. The flowers give rise to reddish black berries fed on by birds 5 10 mm 1 4 3 8 in in diameter. Black cherry is characterized by late maturing fruit and is distinct from the other cherries because it has dark bark with irregular scales that peel off easily and a. Overall cherry is noted for having a warm rich appearance.

If lower grade larger logs are sawn to exclude sapwood and further manufacture eliminates sapwood in the product fencing cladding furniture cherry is an excellent exterior wood. Settlers in the appalachian mountains for example valued the tree s fruit more than its wood. This species of cherry tree typically has a trunk diameter of four to five feet and it grows to heights of up to 100 feet.