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Plant Prunus serotina (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Black Cherry; Wild Cherry
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
serotina
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Rodenticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sedative 2 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Sialogogue 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sodium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spasmogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Spermigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Styptic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen 1 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 3 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 2 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Trypanocide 1 Duke, 1992 *