I started working with cherry about 1 year ago, namely wood turning. I am posting just because I find strange part of the description after having cut into blanks at least 50 trees from all over the country. In Romania at least, it’s widely available including as plain 2.5cm/1 inch boards, the price is about twice that of normal construction lumber, about 500 usd per cubic meter. It is also available in large table top type boards up to 90cm/3 feet wide. I myself bought several trees 80+ cm in diameter and the largest was 95 cm and the tree was alive and healthy. Also, it definetely smells fruity, like sour cherries, I like it a lot. At least here it is always pinkish/orange brown and the sapwood is even darker than the heartwood, I have never seen anything yellow or yellowish but you do get the occasional black streaks in the sapwood but usually very shallow, half an inch max.

My friend has a piece of trunk he found in a wood and despite being just non-worked wood, it has a quite strong fruity scent similar to…sweet cherry, like it was addictioned with sugar. Personally, I find it very pleasant. I can confirm that even in Italy, where wild trees are present, this wood is quite uncommon and costly, the trunk is quite shallow, so you don’t have many material available, also, in nature, it tends to rot quickly, so you have to find a living tree (a not easy task, because they grow solitary, not in groups, like aspen trees). The colour, at least for the italian trees, is a rich reddish brown, more vibrant than the one pictured, I herd they’re particularly prized, but I don’t personally know if that’s true.