Is this a wild cherry?

[Pinkfoot]

That is Prunus Avium.

[Hunter]

They look like they are in a straight line, leads me to think they're planted.

Yes sure they have been planted. I think in this section of the wood they planted trees 20 years ago of so because there are some larch trees which still got tree guards around them. Plenty died and never grown more than 4 inches in thickness but the rest are 12-18 inches . One of the dead larch tree was leaning on another tree and not attached to the ground. I have cut is dawn and it got 18 circle so it mats be over 18 years ago but it may have been dead for number of years.

[Hunter]

That is Prunus Avium.

Thanks. Are they good for wood. I know they are good for wild life.

[Pinkfoot]

Good burning wood , presume they make nice planks.

Tend to get disease when crowded .

We use them for top grafting weeping cherries and other varieties.

[openspaceman]

Thanks. Are they good for wood. I know they are good for wild life.

 

When I felled veneers for export cherry was 9/15 the value of yew

 

Only walnut and pear fetched more but I never got to fell any.

 

They should all have been pruned to 6 m in stages such that no branches remained outside a 100mm diameter core.