Plant Prunus cerasus (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sour Cherry

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
2,3-DIHYDROWOGONIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,3-DIHYDROWOGONIN-7-MONO-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HEPTANONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-MALIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXYMETHYLPROLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ALANINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Fruit	440.0	3168.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	1.3	9.4	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTIRRHININ	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	2400.0	3200.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AROMADENDRIN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AROMADENDRINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	70.0	873.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	4000.0	48000.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	2	Martindale's 28th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Flatulent	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	17	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	19	Martindale's 29th