Butternut
(Wide & Flat: Alternate Arrangement) |
A small to medium-sized tree, 30'-50' high usually in rich bottom lands and
on fertile hillsides. Butternut is more common in northern tier counties and at
higher elevations than Black walnut. Also called
White walnut, its wood is used chiefly for furniture, instrument cases, and boxes
and the nuts are an important wildlife food. Recently a fungal disease has killed
many Butternut trees throughout its range. |
Juglans cinerea L
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| Leaves |
| Alternate, compound, leaflets 11 to 17, each 3"-5"
long, small-toothed; dark yellow-green above, paler, hairy below; end leaflet
same size as side leaflets; main leaf-stem with conspicuous sticky hairs. Butternut
is one of the last trees to unfold its leaves in spring, and the first to shed
them in autumn. |
| Twigs |
| Stout, greenish-gray to tan, rough, brittle. Pith chocolate-brown,
chambered. Buds light brown, hairy, not covered with scales; end bud ½"-¾"
long, side buds smaller. Fringe of short hairs between leaf-scar and bud. |
| Fruit |
| An oblong nut, 1½"-2½" long, covered
with a hairy, sticky husk. The rough nutshell is pointed at one end, the kernel
oily and sweet. |
| Bark |
| Young trunks rather smooth, light-gray; later becoming darker,
deeply furrowed with wide, smooth, flat-topped ridges. |
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