"jtpr" wrote in message
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I felled a black cherry tree in my yard and now I'm milling the wood
from it. I am finding all of this wood to be about the color of
Maple, maybe a wee bit darker. How come whenever you see any Cherry
furniture or cabinets it is a dark reddish brown in color? Is it
always stained?



It may be that your garden cherry is not the same cherry that is normally
felled for timber. I am no expert on cherry species but istr in europe at
least that the timber from a fruit bearing orchard tree was indeed pale in
colour.

Tim W