Flower Notes:
White (Small drooping 5" long racemes in May (later than most cherries))
Foliage Notes:
Multi-Colored (Can develop an orange-yellow-red fall color, but usually not spectacular)
Fruit Notes:
Black (Small cherries ripen in August)
Soil Notes:
Grows best in moist well drained soils, but also grows on dry gravelly or sandy soils
Range:
Eastern and central North America
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Lance-oblong to oblong-ovate alternate leaves are 2-5" long and 1-1.75" wide with small incurved callous teeth. Small roundish glands on petiole. Young bark with lenticels; older bark darker, scaly, cracking, and curling back.