American Black Cherry Tree Wood

Characteristics of cherry wood.

American black cherry tree wood.

Leaf of a black cherry tree. 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 light to dark reddish brown heartwood. Other names used to refer to this species are black cherry rum cherry and mountain black cherry. Overall cherry is noted for having a warm rich appearance.

The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh. The biggest american black cherry log that i found from last year s tornado. He likes cherry too. The heartwood of cherry varies from rich red to reddish brown and will darken with age and on exposure to light.

This was the first log that i milled for martin. The leaves are long and shiny resembling a sourwood s. Other cherry trees most often function as decorative trees or fruit bearers. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin smooth and banded resembling a birch.

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. 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. The flowers give rise to reddish black berries fed on by birds 5 10 mm 1 4 3 8 in in diameter. In contrast the sapwood is creamy white.

A young martin goebel from 2003. The wood has a straight grain a fine uniform satiny and smooth texture and naturally may contain brown pith flecks and small gum pockets. The american black cherry tree grows abundantly in much of the eastern us with the most prized cherry wood coming from the allegheny plateau. Black cherry stands alone for its commercial value as a lumber wood.

The relative proximity of these cherry forests translates to a smaller carbon footprint due to shorter transportation routes from forest to mill to craftsman. A mature tree has very broken dark grey to black bark.