looks like you got yerself a black cherry. i would wait for an additonal reply and not just trust me. i have acres of them, and while they are considered "edible" i am thinking once you try one, you will be over it. i did make jelly one year, it was very pretty, but not a big hit. seeds and bark (like all cherries) are toxic

It looks like a black cherry to me, too, although the leaves are less elongated than mine. It might be a choke cherry -- their berries are more purplish than black and the leaves are shorter.

Some black cherries are better than others. Mine is quite good, but no matter what you make out of it, it's hard to shake the feeling you are eating cough syrup.

You may want to post these pictures in the Tree forum, and add a pictures of the bark as well as the full tree. Wild cherries are a common tree throughout the east coast.

Prunus serotina - look for small reddish "hairs" along the vein on the back of the leaf.

Thank you very much for the opinions! I will post a photo here (and on the tree forum) of the bark before I taste/decide to make something with the cherries! :) Photos coming soon.. and thank you again for the input, I really appreciate it!

Hi. I was wondering if you were able to confirm the type of berry pictured here? We just moved into our place and my lab is obsessed with eating these. Thanks!

Looks just like my Portugal laurel did; the berries are bitter.