American Black Cherry Tree Wood

Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces.

American black cherry tree wood.

A young martin goebel from 2003. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin smooth and banded resembling a birch. The wood has a straight grain a fine uniform satiny and smooth texture and naturally may contain brown pith flecks and small gum pockets. This is the widest solid slab of cherry that i have seen about 32.

The biggest american black cherry log that i found from last year s tornado. Leaf of a black cherry tree. This cherry log came from the area around the tornado last year in st. Other cherry trees most often function as decorative trees or fruit bearers.

This was the first log that i milled for martin. Black cherry is characterized by late maturing fruit and is distinct from the other cherries because it has dark bark with irregular scales that peel off easily and a light to dark reddish brown heartwood. Characteristics of cherry wood. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh.

In contrast the sapwood is creamy white. The flowers give rise to reddish black berries fed on by birds 5 10 mm 1 4 3 8 in in diameter. If lower grade larger logs are sawn to exclude sapwood and further manufacture eliminates sapwood in the product fencing cladding furniture cherry is an excellent exterior wood. Black cherry stands alone for its commercial value as a lumber wood.

The relative proximity of these cherry forests translates to a smaller carbon footprint due to shorter transportation routes from forest to mill to craftsman. Overall cherry is noted for having a warm rich appearance. A mature tree has very broken dark grey to black bark. He likes cherry too.

The leaves are long and shiny resembling a sourwood s. This species of cherry tree typically has a trunk diameter of four to five feet and it grows to heights of up to 100 feet.