Tree ID

• Jun 27, 2008

• #1

Smokey

Senior Member

What kind of tree is this? All 3 pictures are of the same tree.

Thanks

 

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• Jun 27, 2008

• #2

rip18

Senior Member

Black cherry - Prunus serotina.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #3

Rich Kaminski

Senior Member

It looks like a cherry tree, but I have never seen cherry stems that fat befor. So, it might be some kind of hybred.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #4

SGADawg

Senior Member

Definitely Black Cherry. If limbs break off (they are brittle) don't let the horses eat wilted leaves or the fruit. They develop a toxin that is harmful to livestock.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #5

jkoch

Gone But Not Forgotten

Black Cherry, I have one in my back yard.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #6

Vernon Holt

Gone But Not Forgotten

Birds like the cherries, especially after they ferment somewhat. Ever see a drunk robin??

Bears like em' too. They will strip all the limbs off the tree in the process. Takes quite a bunch of cherries to fill up a bear.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #7

Smokey

Senior Member

Thanks for the help.
I can tell ya, that the deer around here like the little cherries.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #8

bam_bam

Senior Member

Always wanderd is the cherries edible?

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #9

rip18

Senior Member

bam_bam said:

Always wanderd is the cherries edible?

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Yep, not much meat on em, but edible. Spit out the big seed.

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #10

Chattooga River Hunter

Senior Member

That is a black cherry to be proud of!

 

• Jun 27, 2008

• #11

GAnaturalist

Senior Member

The seed, like other member of the Prunus gensis, contain cynaide poison in very small amounts. The inner bark as well. My grandmother made cough syrup out of the inner bark, so I think the cynaide must be in small trace amounts. We all have tiny amounts of cynaide in us anyway.

 

• Jun 29, 2008

• #12

Smokey

Senior Member

rip18 said:

Yep, not much meat on em, but edible. Spit out the big seed.

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Well if they are edible it would take lots of'em to even get a taste. The fruit is about the size of a pencil eraser.

 

• Jun 29, 2008

• #13

Doug B.

Senior Member

We call them wild cherrys. I have a friend with a sawmill and I got him to saw a large one into lumber for me. I made a nightstand out of it with the legs out of mountain laurel. The lumber was about the hardest I had ever worked with.