Prunus serotina timber is valuable.
American cherry wood wikipedia.
Perhaps the premier cabinetry timber of the u s traded as cherry.
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus prunus and is a fleshy drupe stone fruit.
Its sap called animé is used for incense perfume and varnish.
The wood is a surviving fragment of a much larger wood shown on an 1837 map as great wood and it is now surrounded by suburban housing.
Cherry wood is a 1 8 hectare local nature reserve and site of borough importance for nature conservation grade ii in morden park in the london borough of merton it is owned by merton council and managed by the council together with the friends of cherry wood.
Low quality wood as well as the sap wood can be more tan.
Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species such as the sweet prunus avium and the sour prunus cerasus the name cherry also refers to the cherry tree and its wood and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus prunus as in.