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Pin, Bird or Fire Cherry

Prunus pensylvanica

Rose Family - Rosaceae

Flowers, smallish (each petal about 0.25 inches long), five petalled and white, are arranged in loose umbrella-shaped clusters. Fruit red.

(Photographed - May)

A tall shrub or short tree with, especially on the flowering branches, bronze-red bark spotted with oval orange lenticels (pores in the stems of woody plants).

Leaves alternate, toothed and oval to lance shaped.