Description ³

Rosaceae | black cherry

Habitat: Woods, pastures, and roadsides.

Leaves: Elliptic to lanciolate, to 4 3/4 in long and 2 in across, taper-pointed, finely toothed, glossy dark green and smooth above, paler and smooth with hairs alogn the midrib beneath, turning yellow or red in autumn.

Bark: Dark gray, smooth.

Flowers: 3/8 in across, white, in spreading to drooping racemes to 6 in long, at the ends of the shoots in late spring or early summer.

Fruit: A rounded, edible cherry, to 3/8 in across, red ripening to black.

Coombes, A. J. (1992). Trees. New York: Dorling Kindersley.

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