Is this a wild cherry tree


 
Sure looks like one. If snap a (live) twig off of it and smell it, it will have a kind of rotten smell to it. The latin name for the tree is Prunus serotina, so that smell is how I remembered the name in plant ID class in college. I have a bunch of them at my golf course.
Good luck,
Keith
 
I have 1 large tree and 2 smaller trees along a fence row.If it was cherry I was going to trim a few branches off for some smoke wood.

I also have a bunch of oak on my land that needs to be trimmed also.I think I'm going to cut some of that up to for smoke wood also.
 
father ownes a cherry orchard. It doesn't resemble them but it could be (my farmer knowledge kinda sucks
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) a "sucker" or just rather worthless pop ups or whatever you call them that come from the root of others or a type of small cherry like a pie cherry or sour cherry or something. The leaves im absolutely positive it belongs to a cherry. the smell as you were told should be unmistakable if you've been around that before. great pics, those were helpfull. go for it!
 
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W, It sure does look like one. In the second pic it's hard to really see the bark, but looks like a cherry. If you could get a close up of the bark that's clear, It will be easy to tell for sure.
 
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Cultivated cherries are somewhat different. That looks like a black cherry, also known as wild cherry, rum cherry, etc. Prunus serotina, as Keith mentioned. Common all across the eastern U.S.

Solid, dead branches are fine to use.
 
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