Wild Cherry Bark | Yu Li Ren

$4.95 – $19.08

Categories: Chinese Medicine, Pagan Herbs

a.k.a.: Cherry Tree, Black Cherry, Choke Cherry, Virginia Prune, Bird Cherry

Magickal Properties: Direction, Thrift, Favors, Invisibility

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Wild Cherry Bark | Yu Li Ren

$4.95 – $19.08

Weight

2 grams

4 grams

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8 grams

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The Chinese use the cherry pits of Prunus japonica, which is in the same Rosaceae family as the Western Prunus serotina and P. avuim. Both the East and the West use the cherry tree’s pit but in different ways. The wild cherries and the bark are typically used in the West. In the East, the pits and fruit are commonly used.

The Cherry Tree is in the Rosaceae family (Rose family). It grows 15-30m tall with a trunk about 70-120cm in diameter. It flowers in racemes and has shiny leaves that are simple 6-14cm long with serrated margin. The flowers are small with five white petals and about 20 stamens with 40 fragrant flowers to each raceme. Fruit is a drupe, 1 cm in diameter, that grows green to red then ripe when black. A mature tree will have very broken dark grey to black bark, which is very thick and like burnt potato chips. Native to North America and Eastern Canada. Chinese trees grow in Inner Mongolia and other parts of China.