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NATIVE BLACK CHERRY TREE
BLACK CHERRY BLOSSOMSTuesday, 7:15 AM. 44 degrees, wind N, moderate. The sky is overcast and the barometer predicts rain.
We should pretty well complete the landscape job we have been working on today, if it doesn’t rain on our parade.
The spectacular tree pictured is the native black cherry, Prunus serotina. Note the pendulous branch tips loaded with blooms. A tree of the northern deciduous and mixed forests it can reach heights of eighty feet. Its small black cherries are edible when fully ripe. Because it bears fruit so heavily it is also a tree of woods edges and roadsides, and can be very weedy where there is little competition. Nevertheless, it can be a magnificent specimen tree and very valuable to wildlife. Maybe life IS just a bowl of cherries.
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