Black Cherry Wood Floors

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 wood floors. Black cherry is about 26 softer than a northern red oak wood with a rating of 950 on the janka hardness scale. Leaf of a black cherry tree. Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. American black cherry is an exceptional choice for hardwood plank flooring.

Variations within species and grades. Black cherry presents with a uniform grain texture which is fine and wavy. 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. 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.

Countryplank offers a variety of grades and styles of cherry flooring to suit your tastes and budget. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is magnoliopsida rosales rosaceae prunus serotina ehrh.