It is a wild cherry plant and as previously stated is a small fruit with a stone or pit fairly large and little flesh on it, the North American natives used it for food, medicine and dried the paste for a winter snack and pick me up.. . Here in Canada there are company's who make it into jam, I have bought it and my mother used to live in Northern Ontario, and regularly picked them, she always said never drink milk after eating them or your throut will close over, that is why in English they are called Choke Cherry's