Wild cherry (Prunus serotina) is a deciduous tree, 18-27 m high, with a regular, oval, dense crown. The trunk is long and straight. The bark of young trees is smooth, with numerous short, narrow, horizontally directed lenticels. With age, the bark becomes very dark, almost black. Leaves are oval or lanceolate, dark green and shiny above, pale below. They usually have dense, yellowish-brown pubescence. In autumn, the leaves turn yellow-orange. The fruit is a purplish red round drupe about 1 cm in diameter, almost black when mature.