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
SCOPOLETIN	44	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILVER	3	Leaf	0.0	0.5	0.74	Duke, 1992 *
SILVER	3	Stem	0.0	0.1	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Leaf	8.0	480.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Stem	0.5	378.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Leaf	0.6	144.0	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Stem	0.0	38.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
URS-12-EN-28-AL-3-BETA-OL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
URS-12-EN-28-AL-3-BETA-OL	0	Leaf	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
VANADIUM	16	Leaf	0.1	4.8	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
VANADIUM	16	Stem	0.0	1.6	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
YTTERBIUM	0	Leaf	0.1	0.7	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
YTTERBIUM	0	Stem	0.0	0.3	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
YTTRIUM	0	Leaf	0.1	14.4	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
YTTRIUM	0	Stem	0.0	3.8	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Leaf	3.0	192.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Stem	0.5	216.0	1.48	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Leaf	0.6	6.7	-0.50	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
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	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.
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator	6	Duke, 1992 *
Vasomotor-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	2	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229