Posted on 01/06/2026 6:20:00 PM PST by kawhill
Black cherry (Prunus serotina), the largest of the native cherries and the only one of commercial value, is found throughout the Eastern United States. It is also known as wild black cherry, rum cherry, and mountain black cherry. Large, high-quality trees suited for furniture wood or veneer are found in large numbers in a more restricted commercial range on the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia
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Beautiful wood. I built a dining room set out of it.
No dark cherry in our neck of the woods...and only ONE Hickory tree, which we are guarding with our lives, LOL!
I do grow the dwarf, sour pie cherry ‘Northstar’ - we have two trees - last year was a bumper crop.
https://www.jungseed.com/product/J30745/641
Those cherries are also good for making ‘(President) George Washington’s Cherry Bounce’
https://www.almanac.com/recipe/george-washingtons-cherry-bounce
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