Seeds and Things 10 Chokecherry Prunus Virginiana Tree Seeds Makes Great Jam and Jelly
Today, as always, this wild cherry makes fine preserves, juice, jelly, and syrup. Chokecherry leather is still a unique, convenient, healthy, and tasty snack. And every year in late summer, across most of our continent, clusters of these opulent black fruit dangle from drooping branches, offering themselves to the first taker.The chokecherry Prunus virginiana is a large shrub or small tree, usually found growing in small clonal clusters. Typical size for fruiting bushes is one to three inches in diameter and eight to fifteen feet tall. Fruit is occasionally produced on plants only three feet high, and exceptionally large specimens may reach forty feet in height and a foot in diameter. Chokecherry bushes are completely devoid of thorns.