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
CALCIUM	28	Stem	323.0	18360.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Leaf	not available	356.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.0	2.9	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Stem	0.0	0.8	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Stem	0.0	5.4	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Leaf	0.8	29.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Stem	1.3	378.0	2.51	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMULSIN	0	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.
EO	0	Stem Bark	not available	2000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
EUDESMIC-ACID	0	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.
GALLIC-ACID	62	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Bark	500.0	3400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Leaf	not available	2500.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROCYANIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	20.0	1440.0	2.73	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Stem	0.2	810.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LANTHANUM	0	Leaf	0.8	19.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
LANTHANUM	0	Stem	0.1	16.0	-0.20	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
Antiepileptic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Antifertility	2	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *