Black Cherry Hardwood Trees

Uses for black cherry wood and veneer include high quality furniture cabinets paneling moldings flooring musical instruments carvings and turnings.

Black cherry hardwood trees.

Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. The cherry tree is a member of the rose family which is fitting since they are both quite beautiful. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. Cherry saplings can only survive for 3 to 5 years under a dense canopy covering.

While it occasionally reaches outbreak levels and defoliates a variety of deciduous hardwood trees especially black cherry and other cherry species it is not normally thought of as a significant pest and control measures are not usually warranted in forest situations. Black cherry wood has a beautiful reddish brown color and grain patterns. Shade tolerant species are species that are able to thrive in the shade and in the presence of natural competition by other plants. Black cherry which is used for flooring is one of the largest cherry trees and is easily identifiable by its thick rough dark outer bark.

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. In quebec canada an eastern white pine was sold for 47 000. 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. Other names used to refer to this species are black cherry rum cherry and mountain black cherry.

It is often made into veneer. Characteristics of cherry wood. A tall large diameter branch free white pine can be worth more than some tropical hardwoods. Northern red oak quercus rubra.

Other names black cherry capulin cherry chisos wild cherry choke cherry edwards plateau cherry escarpment cherry gila choke cherry mountain black cherry new england mahogany plum rum cherry southwestern chokecherry whiskey. A list of tree species grouped generally by biogeographic realm and specifically by bioregions and shade tolerance. Prunus serotina also commonly called wild black cherry rum cherry or mountain black cherry is a woody plant species belonging to the genus prunus this cherry is native to eastern north america from southern quebec and ontario south to texas and central florida with disjunct populations in arizona and new. Leaf of a black cherry tree.

In another case a helicopter was used to lift black walnut trees out of a farmer s private woodlot. Intermediate shade tolerant trees fall somewhere in between the two. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh.