Choke Cherry Flowers

Small tree 10 25 ft.

Choke cherry flowers. There can be as many as 20 fruits in a single cluster. Chokecherry blossoms appear before the leaves are fully open and grow in flowering spikes 7 6 to 15 2 cm 3 to 6 inches long. The natural historic range of p. Raceme dense 15 80 flowered 2 to 3 inches long borne at end of new stems usually occurring with the leaves.

28 inch across hypanthium campanulate 1 20 to 1 15 inch glabrous. Roots create an abundance of suckers. It is a beautiful tree when in flower in the spring and is a valuable wildlife tree. Bark stems leaves and seed pits are toxic.

As the summer wanes and autumn begins the green leaves begin a spectacular showing by gradually becoming red and then a deep. Prunus virginiana commonly called bitter berry chokecherry virginia bird cherry and western chokecherry also black chokecherry for p. Observe the shrubs blossoms which appear in april through july. Edible fruit sometimes used in jelly and making wine.

Chokecherry may be confused with a small black cherry tree prunus serotina which has similar cylindrical flower clusters but grows well over 50 feet tall has proportionately narrower leaves sepals that persist in fruit rusty colored hairs along the leaf midvien near the base and older trees with bark having coarse scaly plates. A chokecherry tree makes a striking ornamental tree in a sunny landscape with its white blossoms in the spring and dense green foliage covering the tree canopy throughout the growing season. Flowers chokecherry flowers are white found in loose cylindrical clusters long terminal raceme that range from 8 to 15cm 3 to 6 long. The fruit of the chokecherry is circular and looks like the cherry you find on cake toppings but is dark crimson to black in color.

Sepals 5 triangular to orbiculate 1 25 to 1 20 inch margins glandular serrate. The flowers are fragrant. The choke cherry prunus virginiana is a small tree with frequently crooked or inclined trunk and a narrow open slender branched head it is found over most of the state at the edge of woods in fence rows and waste places. Chokecherries usually flower in may to early june.

Common chokecherry choke cherry. Petals 5 white. An astringent used medicinally for colds and cough. Pedicels 1 8 to 1 4 inch pubescent.

Virginiana includes most of canada including northwest territories but excluding yukon nunavut and labrador most of. Berries ripen in august. The choke cherry flowers in late may to early june and thickets seem to come alive with the buzzing sound of eager pollinating insects. Choke cherry is sometimes used by white tailed deer for antler rubs although preference is for trees with at least a 5 cm trunk diameter.

Simple leaf with fine double teeth on margin.