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.

Black cherry wood tree.

Characteristics of cherry wood. Prunus serotina family black cherry stands alone for its commercial value as a lumber wood. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. A mature tree has very broken dark grey to black bark.

Elsewhere though the wood was more appreciated. They dubbed the tree rum cherry because from its dark purple cherries they brewed a potent liquor. 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. The cherry bark breaks into thin dark plates and raised edges on older wood are described as burnt cornflakes.

The leaves are long and shiny resembling a sourwood s. Overall cherry is noted for having a warm rich appearance. Settlers in the appalachian mountains for example valued the tree s fruit more than its wood. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin smooth and banded resembling a birch.

Other names used to refer to this species are black cherry rum cherry and mountain black cherry. 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 cherry trees most often function as decorative trees or fruit bearers.