Side by side
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Lay two plants next to each other — uses, risks, and whether either has a grow guide.
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Wild cherry
Prunus serotina
Black cherry of eastern woods — a cough-bark folklore, and a tree whose wilted leaves are a livestock warning.
Flavor
Bark syrup is almond-cherry, bitter, a little medicine-cabinet. Fruit is astringent-sweet.
In favor
A native timber tree
Against
Wilted leaves are toxic to livestock
Days to harvest
Fruit in 5–8 years from a whip
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