Black Cherry Hardwood

The wood is prized for both beauty and work ability.

Black cherry hardwood.

Black cherry hardwood from our region is one of the most valued species of hardwoods with its rich red heartwood beautiful grain patterns and minimal gum spots. 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 sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. Black cherry is a favorite medium among top furniture and cabinet makers.

Other names used to refer to this species are black cherry rum cherry and mountain black cherry. Overall cherry is noted for having a warm rich appearance. Our black cherry lumber comes from pennsylvania and new york a region where. Cherry wood has been traditionally used in fine furniture since the first american settlers.

The cherry tree is shade intolerant and is typically found on the outskirts of most forests. Leaf of a black cherry tree. It is durable beautiful and darkens naturally and dramatically over time especially when exposed to direct sunlight. 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.

Cherry is an overall very workable wood that machines tools and glues very well. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh. Various subspecies of cherry exist across the eastern and southern united states and far down into mexico. The finished wood has a beautiful salmon pink to red color that with time only improves.

The black cherry or prunus serotina is a species in the subgenus padus with beautiful flower clusters each separate flower attached by short equal stalks and called racemes all cherries in the landscape or forest share this floral design and often used as specimens in yards and parks.