Black Cherry Tree Seeds
(Prunus serotina)
Hardy-3 Fast, Fall Color Flower Plant
Black Cherry’s Wood is Considered Very Valuable for it’s Color. Tt is Used for Furniture, Instruments, Paneling, Toys and Handles. The Bark Provides a Cough Medicine; Wild Cherry Syrup, While it’s “Pitted Fruit” is Used to Make Jelly and Wine and Can be Used as a Seasoning as Well. Prunus serotina is a medium-sized, fast-growing forest tree growing to a height of 50–80 ft (15–24 m). Leaves are 2–5 in (5–13 cm) long, ovate-lanceolate in shape, with finely toothed margins. Fall leaf color is yellow to red. Flowers are small, white and 5-petalled, in racemes 4–6 in (10–15 cm) long which contain several dozen flowers. The flowers give rise to reddish-black “berries” (drupes) fed on by birds, 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) in diameter. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin, smooth, and banded, resembling a birch. A mature tree has very broken, dark grey to black bark. The leaves are long and shiny, resembling a sourwood’s. An almond-like odor is released when a young twig is scratched and held close to the nose, revealing minute amounts of cyanide compounds produced and stored by the plant as a defense mechanism against herbivores. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Best in moist, fertile loams in full sun. Young trees develop a long tap root which makes transplanting difficult.
Zones 3-9
Black Cherry Germination:
1) Soak seeds for 12 hours in warm water.
2) Cold stratify by placing seeds in a zip lock bag filled with moist peat moss or vermiculite. Place in the fridge for 120 days. Periodically check to ensure they do not dry out. Keep moist, but never wet. This will break the seeds dormancy.
3) Plant seeds in a moist & well draining seed starting mix.
4) Use a heated propagator to keep the temperature at 75 degrees F.
5) Expect germination within 2 weeks.
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