. Common trees of Ohio : a handy pocket manual of the common and introduced trees of Ohio. Trees -- Ohio. OF Ohio 45 T BUTTERNUT Juglans ctnerea, Linnaeus HE Butternut, also called White Walnut, is a close kin to the Black Walnut. The leaves are alternate, compound, with 13 to 23 leaflets. The flowers arc of two kinds. The pol- len-bearing occur in unbranched, droop- ing clusters. The nut-producing occur in few-flowered clus- ters on new growth. The fruit is an elongated nut with a hairy, sticky, non- splitting husk. The nut is 4 - ribbed, pointed at one end. sharply f u r r owed over entire s
. Common trees of Ohio : a handy pocket manual of the common and introduced trees of Ohio. Trees -- Ohio. OF Ohio 45 T BUTTERNUT Juglans ctnerea, Linnaeus HE Butternut, also called White Walnut, is a close kin to the Black Walnut. The leaves are alternate, compound, with 13 to 23 leaflets. The flowers arc of two kinds. The pol- len-bearing occur in unbranched, droop- ing clusters. The nut-producing occur in few-flowered clus- ters on new growth. The fruit is an elongated nut with a hairy, sticky, non- splitting husk. The nut is 4 - ribbed, pointed at one end. sharply f u r r owed over entire surface, and contains a sweet, oily edible nut. The bark is gray to ashy-white, separates into wide flat ridges. The twigs are stout, greenish-gray, often ^°^^^' ^Oj;^3^« BUTTERNUT dark - brown Cham- One-fonrth natural size, except 3 and 4 which are bered oith. The enlarged and 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 natural size. buds arc covered with dense pale down. Terminal bud is ^ to ^ of an inch long, flattened, blunt-pointed, longer than wide. Lateral flower buds are pineapple-like, often placed one above another. The wood is soft, not strong, light-brown. Used in furniture, interior finishing, and chests. The Butternut is found from New Brunswick to Minne- sota, south to Delaware and Arkansas and along mountains to Georgia. It is distributed throughout Ohio, but is less common than the Black Walnut. It is also of less com- mercial importance than the latter. It prefers rich, moist soil, is most frequently met along streams, fences, and roads, and rarely exceeds 50 jfect in height and 2 feet in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Illick, Joseph S. (Joseph Simon), 1884-1967; Secrest, Edmund, b. 1882. Washington, D. C. : The American Tree Association
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