American Cherry Wood Wikipedia

Its sap called animé is used for incense perfume and varnish.

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. 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. 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. Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species such as the sweet prunus avium and the sour prunus cerasus the name cherry also refers to the cherry tree and its wood and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus prunus as in. High quality cherry timber is known for its strong orange hues and high price.