3. Trunk Gray tan Spreading Sprouting Standing Bark Buds Leaves Limbs Living Growing Providing Big round Branch

5. Birds and mammals that eat black cherries: American Robin, Brown Thrasher, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Bluebird, European Starling and many more. Berries form in late spring Can get parasites such as Honey Mushroom, Tinder Polypore, and Chicken Mushroom. White-tailed Deer, Eastern Cottontail, mice, and Meadow Voles all eat Black Cherry seedlings Animals spread seeds through “poop” Medicines, including cough medicine, is made from Black Cherry sometimes considered a weed Home to many pests like borers, scales, tent caterpillars and aphids

6. Throughout its range in eastern North America, black cherry grows well on a wide variety of soils if summer growing conditions are cool and moist Deciduous trees in temperate forests lose their leaves in the fall to better survive winter conditions like extreme cold and reduced daylight

8. What was the best thing about our tree and what we enjoyed the most Learning that it exists and getting to go outside– Crystal Watching animals/ organisms dwell of it and watching it bloom– Nick That it blossomed even though I swore it was dead and I enjoyed watching it grow –Amanda

9. Works Cited http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/biotemperate.php http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/black-cherry/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_serotina