Wild Cherry Bark and Wild Cherry Bark Extract.

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Cherry Tree Classfication.

Wild Cherry Bark Extract.Wild Cherry Extract INCI Name Prunus Serotina Bark Extract CAS 84604-07-9 Prunus Serotina Extract 84604-07-9.EINECS ELINCS No 283-284-0 Prunus serotina Ehrh black cherry bark Old Indian Wild Cherry Bark photo picture image There are several varieties of Wild Cherry that grow in the US, most of them in the Eastern deciduous forests. On the Midwestern prairies, Chokecherries are very common in the brushy areas, and were much loved by the indigenous peoples. In southwestern Wisconsin we have three common Wild Cherries: Pin Cherry (Prunus pennsylvanica), Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), and Black Cherry (Prunus serotina).

 It's not hard to learn to identify Cherry trees at any season of the year. The bark of the younger saplings and branches is a shiny brown with the hint of a purple or reddish hue. It has irregular horizontal stripes around it called lentils that are a very strong clue to its identification. The tall, mature trees have a scaly bark on the trunk, while the upper branches have the smooth, lentil look. Here's an outstanding photo shoot of a Black Cherry. Another identification key is the presence of an ugly black fungus on the smaller branches, a disease that most of the Cherries in our region are infected with. If you also learn the shape of the long, smooth leaves that turn golden yellow in the fall, you'll have no trouble noticing the Wild Cherries scattered through the woodlands, field edges, and brushy places.

 All Cherries are fruit bearing trees, but the fruits around here are mostly disappointing, not in flavor but in quantity and ease of harvesting. Pin Cherries have very tiny cherries with very large pits that grow singly way up high in the taller, more mature trees. It's a rare year that they bear heavily enough to bother with, and without a really tall ladder and much determination are pretty well out of reach.

 Black Cherries can bear more heavily on a good year but also tend to be way up high in lofty tree canopies. Sometimes I find a tree with open ground beneath and can pick up the fresh fall, but I have much better success harvesting the fruits of the Chokecherries. Chokecherries are more bush-like, rarely getting very tall, and yield heavy clusters of cherries. There is some interest in Manitoba, Canada in developing a market for Chokecherries, but otherwise they have fallen mostly into disuse. This is probably because they are so puckermouth-dry to eat raw, that most folks don't bother to try them cooked. Unfortunately, Chokecherries are not common here, but keep to very localized spots so I have to just record any sightings in my mental files and take a drive in mid to late August to see if there's a good harvest.

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last edit date:17th,June.2009.