Cherry Log Question

[Tome]

Is the cherry here in southern Missouri the same as cherry in the eastern US?  I milled some yesterday and the logger calls them wild cherry, anyway it made some beautiful lumber.

[woodmills1]

we have a wild cherry most here call choke cherry but you would be hard pressed to tell the difference in the lumber.

[Ironwood]

Here in Pa. there is a "bird cherry" which is a smoother bark, grows wild, and lacks the quality of the cherry that we all know and love. Reid

[Ron Wenrich]

Choke cherry rarely gets large enough to make sawlogs.  The "bird cherry" sounds more like sweet cherry.  They're pretty common on fence rows.  Often black cherry is called wild cherry, but I've heard sweet cherry called wild cherry.

The smooth barked cherry is probably sweet cherry, looks a lot like sweet or black birch.  Black cherry's bark breaks up into a rough bark pretty early in age. 

All cherry gets lumped together when its sawed into lumber.  A little more of a pronounced grain in black cherry.