Medium tree up to 75 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 3 feet; crown rounded, with rigid branches.

 Thin, smooth, reddish‑brown at first, becoming deeply fur­rowed and black.

 Slender, smooth, dark brown; leaf scars half‑round, each with 3 bundle traces.

 Ovoid, sharp‑pointed, dark brown, smooth, tip to one‑fourth inch long.

 Alternate, simple; blades oblong or oval, short‑pointed at the tip, tapering to the base, up to 6 inches long and about 1/3 as broad, finely toothed along the edges, green, smooth, and shiny on the upper surface, paler and smooth on the lower surface except for rusty hairs along the veins; leafstalks slender, slightly less than 1 inch long, smooth, with I or more reddish glands near the tip.

 Crowded in showy, drooping, elongated clusters up to 6 inches long, appearing when the leaves are partly grown, each flower about ¼ across, with 5 white petals.

 Fleshy, juicy, spherical, dark purple, up to % inch in diameter.

 Roadsides, fencerows, edge of woods.

 The Wild Black Cherry is similar to the Choke Cherry but usually is a larger tree with thicker leaves and with the teeth tending to curve inward.

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Tree species facts from Robert Mohlenbrock , Forest Trees of Illinois , 1996