Black cherry trees with large, frilly crowns exposed on the southwest side should be pruned less severely.

Claim · model-written summary

Black cherry trees with large, frilly crowns exposed on the southwest side should be pruned less severely.

Taxon

Black cherryPrunus serotinae0

Outcome

pruned less severelye2

Qualifier

large crowns and that are frilly exposed on the southwest sidee2

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Verbatim

e0

“Black cherry trees 4 to 6 inches in diameter at breast height (dbh) with live crown ratios ranging from 73 to 92 percent were pruned to 25, 50, or 75 percent of tree height or were left unpruned”

e2

“Trees that have large crowns and that are frilly exposed on the southwest side should be pruned less severely”