By: Lyric Boyd & Briana Harris

Black Cherry TreeScientific Name: Prunus serotina By: Lyric Boyd & Briana Harris

Bark • Dark grey • Scaly • Gets old, gets rough

Leaves • Dark green on top • Light green on bottom • Up to 5 in. long & 2 in. wide • Turn yellow to red in fall

Fruits • Small • Change from orange to red to black • Many animals eat them

Organisms Northern Flicker Promethea moth Fly

Winter Pictures

With Our Tree (Spring)

Limiting Factors • Weather • People • Pollution • Competition

Why We liked this project • Not staying in the classroom • Learning about nature • We learned about a new tree

Wood description • Reddish brown with yellowish sapwood • Moderately heavy • Hard • Strong • Fine-grained • valuable

Wood purpose • furniture and interior finish

Interesting Facts • Also Known as the “wild cherry” • Usually a small tree but can grow up to 80 ft. • More birds eat from this tree than any other • 456 butterflies and moths lay their eggs on the black cherry • The fruit can be used to make jams, jellies, and liquors

Our Poem Cherries Red round Growing swinging laying Winter tree trunk limbs Withering falling dying Black cherry ground

How did our opinion change? • In the beginning, we just saw it as an opportunity to go outside. As time went on we watched our tree grow and change. It actually became very interesting to us. We learned a lot of interesting things about this tree. It changed a lot form Winter to Spring. In the winter, it had no leaves and just looked plain. In the Spring, it gained leaves and looked more appealing. Actually, we never knew that this tree existed until now.

Works Cited • "Black Cherry." Black Cherry. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2014.

By: Lyric Boyd & Briana Harris