(Yes....I know....the pictures are NOT black cherry!)
Domestic prunus species, such as the sweet Prunus avium and the sour Prunus cerasus and dark black domestic cherries like you find in Tillamuk ice cream aren’t closely related to the wild black cherry in the article that grows all over the country in abandoned pasture , meadows and in the hedgerows. Wild black cherry is sometimes called rum cherry.
Love them all much better than the unrelated Senegal Cherry we have growing as an invasive here in Florida.
I think I gave one of the wild ones coming up here some bird must have sown for me, we are just at the south edge of the trees’ native range but too far south to grow domestic cherries, not enough chill hours fir domestic cherry to set fruit.