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.

Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh. 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. Leaf of a black cherry tree.

American black cherry is an exceptional choice for hardwood plank flooring. Countryplank offers a variety of grades and styles of cherry flooring to suit your tastes and budget. Black cherry sapwood in not rot resistant at all most cherry is sawn for grade and nearly all boards contain sapwood often both faces. Black cherry is about 26 softer than a northern red oak wood with a rating of 950 on the janka hardness scale.

Black cherry is a species which presents with potentially significant color variations in boards. Black cherry presents with a uniform grain texture which is fine and wavy.