ROSACEAE 
Wild Red Cherry. Pin Cherry 
Prunus pennsylvanica L., f. 
HABIT.—A slender tree, seldom over 30 feet high, with a 
trunk diameter of 8-10 inches; crown rather open, narrow, 
rounded, with slender, regular branches. 
LEAVES.—Alternate, simple, 3-5 inches long, 34-114 inches 
broad; oblong-lanceolate; finely and sharply serrate; bright green 
and shining above, paler beneath; petioles slender, %4-1 inch 
long, glandular near the blade. 
FLOWERS.—May-June, with the leaves; perfect; about %4 
inch across, borne on slender pedicels in 4-5-flowered umbels, 
generally clustered, 2-3 together; calyx 5-cleft, campanulate; 
petals 5, white, 1% inch long; stamens 15-20. 
FRUI'T.—July-August; a globular drupe, 4% inch in diam- 
eter, light red, with thick skin and sour flesh. 
WINTER-BUDS.—Terminal bud % inch long, broadly 
ovoid, rather blunt, brownish, smooth. 
BARK.—Twigs at first lustrous, red, marked by orange col- 
ored lenticels, becoming brownish; red-brown and thin on the 
trunk, peeling off horizontally into broad, papery plates; bitter, 
aromatic. 
WOOD.—Light, soft, close-grained, light brown, with thin, 
yellow sapwood. 
DISTRIBUTION.—Throughout the northern portion of the 
state, extending southward to Ionia County. 
HABITAT.—Abundant on sand-lands; roadsides; burned- 
over lands; clearings; hillsides. 
NOTES.—Rapid of growth. Short-lived. 
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