What is Cherry Lumber?

Cherry lumber is a type of hardwood that is appreciated for its resilience and its eye-catching wood grain. This type of lumber is used for fine cabinetry materials, hardwood flooring and furniture. Cherry lumber is also used for beams and trim work to give an elegant design with its unique wood grain texture.

What is Cherry Lumber?

Regions

Cherry trees are native to regions around the Northern Hemisphere, but certain varieties also grow in some tropical regions, such as the Barbados cherry tree. In the United States, regions of Pennsylvania and Virginia are well known for their abundance of cherry wood forests. Eastern Asia is the most abundant region of fine cherry trees.

Varieties

The American black cherry tree is considered one of the best sources of cherry lumber. The lumber made from the American black cherry tree has a reddish feature and will have a look of glass when polished.
Other varieties of cherry trees used for cherry lumber are chokecherry, mountain black cherry, wild black cherry, capulin, escarpment cherry and Rum cherry.