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

Common Names

Black Cherry; Wild Cherry

How this plant is used

Food

Subspecies

serotina

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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
LAUROCERASIN	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Leaf	0.3	67.0	0.84	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Stem	0.2	108.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDINS	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	435.0	9600.0	2.11	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Stem	28.0	5400.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Leaf	0.0	1.9	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Stem	0.0	0.2	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
NEODYMIUM	0	Leaf	2.0	19.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Leaf	0.0	6.7	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Stem	0.0	2.7	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	261.0	4608.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Stem	114.0	2592.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	1624.0	26880.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Stem	80.0	15120.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNASIN	2	Bark	5000.0	15000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNASIN	2	Leaf	not available	562.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	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
Antitumor (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitumor (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	6	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	2	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Antiulcer	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiviral	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Astringent	3	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ATPase-Inhibitor	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat	2	Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.