🐾 black cherry

Prunus serotina · wildlife atlas entry

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Prunus serotina , commonly called black cherry , wild black cherry , rum cherry , or mountain black cherry , is a deciduous tree or shrub of the genus Prunus . Despite being called black cherry, it is not very closely related to the commonly cultivated cherries such as sweet cherry ( P. avium ), sour cherry ( P. cerasus ) and Japanese flowering cherries ( P. serrulata , P. speciosa , P. sargentii , P. incisa , etc.) which belong to Prunus subg. Cerasus . Instead, P. serotina belongs to Prunus ... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

black cherry — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Danny Barron, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · cc-by-nc-nd

Record card

Scientific name	Prunus serotina
Rank	species
Community observations	138,635 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Rosales › family Rosaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · 9466 PB Gasteren, Nederland
(c) teddydolstra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Brundidge, AL, US
(c) pcharris, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Parkway North, New York, NY, US
(c) betsyyyy, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Campus de Drummondville, Drummondville, QC, CA
(c) Mathis Boisvert, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-07-24 · Watertown, MA, US
(c) Sarika Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Forest Park Dr, New York, NY, US
(c) camilogaston, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

black cherry photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-07-05 · Ottawa Greenbelt, CA-ON-OT, CA-ON, CA
(c) Owen Clarkin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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