This very rare wand wood creates a wand of strange power, most highly prized by the wizarding students of the school of Mahoutokoro in Japan, where those who own cherry wands have special prestige. The Western wand-purchaser should dispel from their minds any notion that the pink blossom of the living tree makes for a frivolous or merely ornamental wand, for cherry wood often makes a wand that possesses truly lethal power, whatever the core. If teamed with dragon heartstring, the wand ought never to be matched with a wizard without exceptional self-control and strength of mind.

Approximately 0.80% of witches and wizards have this type of wand wood.