All true cherries are deciduous trees and shed their leaves before winter dormancy. Prunus serotina, also commonly called wild black cherry, rum cherry, or mountain black cherry, is a woody plant ...

The common names are black cherry, wild cherry and black mountain cherry. Another often-used name is black rum cherry due to its use of the fruit by Appalachian pioneers to flavor their rum or ...

Some cherry and plum trees in the central Ohio area are turning black from a fungal disease. Here's what you need to know.

Colonists did eat the fruit of our native black cherry or, more often, concoct it with rum from the West Indies to ... just suppose George Washington had chopped down one of the black cherry trees.

A black cherry tree, the biggest of its kind in the state, has a circumference of 99 inches, a height of 120 feet and a crown spread of 63 feet. The tree is in Seven Mile Creek Park. Photo by Pat ...

Black cherry is susceptible to gummosis, or the depositing of resinous gum on the bark of the tree. Unfortunately, widespread gummosis caused by insect damage and other factors keeps many black cherry ...