Quick guide to chokecherry identification for X-disease management |
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| Wild black cherry fruit. Both wild black cherry and common chokecherry bear their fruit on a central axis. Notice that wild black cherry have a distinctive calyx cup remnant on the end of fruit attached to petiole. Chokecherries have no calyx cup remnant. | Underside of wild black cherry leaves showing brown hairy midvein at the base adjacent to the petiole. Chokecherries have midveins with no brown fuzz. |
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| Wild black cherry on left with strap-like leaves and long narrow point. Common chokecherry leaves (right) are more oval, smaller leaf tip and are wider closer to the tip. |