Black Cherry Wood Floors

A light reddish brown hardwood with a satiny fine grain that ages to a rich patina american cherry is one of the most sought after northern hardwoods.

Black cherry wood floors.

Leaf of a black cherry tree. Black cherry is about 26 softer than a northern red oak wood with a rating of 950 on the janka hardness scale. American black cherry is an exceptional choice for hardwood plank flooring. Black cherry presents with a uniform grain texture which is fine and wavy.

The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh. Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. 443 280 1517 email. Variations within species and grades.

Other names black cherry capulin cherry chisos wild cherry choke cherry edwards plateau cherry escarpment cherry gila choke cherry mountain black cherry new england mahogany plum rum cherry southwestern chokecherry whiskey. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces.