American Cherry Wood Wikipedia

Perhaps the premier cabinetry timber of the u s traded as cherry.

American cherry wood wikipedia.

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus prunus and is a fleshy drupe stone fruit. Prunus serotina timber is valuable. Cherry wood is a 1 8 hectare local nature reserve and site of borough importance for nature conservation grade ii in morden park in the london borough of merton it is owned by merton council and managed by the council together with the friends of cherry wood. Hymenaea courbaril courbaril and west indian locust is a tree common in the caribbean central america and south america it is a hardwood that is used for furniture flooring and decoration its hard fruit pods have edible dry pulp surrounding the seeds.

The wood of prunus serotina is also used as a spice in foods as it imparts a unique flavor. Its sap called animé is used for incense perfume and varnish. The wood is a surviving fragment of a much larger wood shown on an 1837 map as great wood and it is now surrounded by suburban housing.