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| | Black Cherry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | One of the plants that attracted my attention again and again was the common fl cherry (Prunus serotina)—also known as wild cherry, rum cherry, bird cherry, mountain fl cherry, and Virginia prune. |
 | | In April I discovered a particularly fine fl cherry in the park across the street from my house, and all that month I visited it regularly to watch the bees buzzing its fluffy white flowers and the eastern tent caterpillars snuggling in their gossamer beds in its branches. |
 | | Ripening from red to fl in summer, the glossy, tempting little cherries are edible (though the seeds are poisonous); bittersweet and vaguely wine-flavored, they were a childhood favorite. |
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