WILD BLACK CHERRY
Cherry
Wild Cherry
prunus serotina
prunus virginiana
Rosaceae

DO NOT BOIL WILD CHERRY
It imparts its virtues to water or alcohol,
boiling impairs its medicinal properties.

CAUTION
Leaves, especially when wilted, have poisoned cattle.

PARTS USED
bark, bark of root, branches, trunk, and twigs

AKA
black choke
choke cherry
rum cherry
wild cherry
Virginian Prune

Venus
Consecration

Use bark collected in the fall.

USAGE
Modern lore suggests that cherry bark be collected
when one wishes to revitalize the magickal energy needed
to complete an old project.

Cherry blossoms or bark may be used as an incense
to assist a novice in the pathworking when the time
of initiation draws nigh.


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