Pin Cherry, also known as Fire Cherry, is a medium-sized tree common at higher elevations in the Mountains of North Carolina. The leaves are longer than the common Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) and the bark and arrangement of the flowers are much different.

Madison Co., NC 5/9/08.

The flowers are arranged in umbels or corymbs, unlike the long racemes of Black Cherry.

Haywood Co., NC 5/10/08.

Note that there's only one n in pensylvanica.

Haywood Co., NC 5/9/08.

Madison Co., NC 5/9/08.

The bark is a distinctive reddish-brown, sometimes shiny, with horizontally-elongated lenticels.

Haywood Co., NC 5/10/08.

Haywood Co., NC 5/10/08.