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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Prunus serotina (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Black Cherry; Wild Cherry
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
serotina
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SCOPOLETIN 44 Bark *
SILVER 3 Leaf 0.0 0.5 0.74 *
SILVER 3 Stem 0.0 0.1 -0.71 *
STRONTIUM 0 Leaf 8.0 480.0 -0.25 *
STRONTIUM 0 Stem 0.5 378.0 -0.21 *
TANNIN 35 Bark *
TITANIUM 0 Leaf 0.6 144.0 -0.08 *
TITANIUM 0 Stem 0.0 38.0 -0.51 *
URS-12-EN-28-AL-3-BETA-OL 0 Flower Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
URS-12-EN-28-AL-3-BETA-OL 0 Leaf 30.0 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
VANADIUM 16 Leaf 0.1 4.8 -0.25 *
VANADIUM 16 Stem 0.0 1.6 -0.31 *
YTTERBIUM 0 Leaf 0.1 0.7 -0.55 *
YTTERBIUM 0 Stem 0.0 0.3 -0.47 *
YTTRIUM 0 Leaf 0.1 14.4 -0.22 *
YTTRIUM 0 Stem 0.0 3.8 -0.58 *
ZINC 77 Leaf 3.0 192.0 0.65 *
ZINC 77 Stem 0.5 216.0 1.48 *
ZIRCONIUM 0 Leaf 0.6 6.7 -0.50 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Pesticide 14 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Phytoalexin 1 *
Phytohormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 3 *
Prostaglandigenic 2 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 *
Protease-Inhibitor 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 2 Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 3 *
Respirastimulant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.