Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
Distribution
The distribution range of J. cinerea extends east to New Brunswick, and from southern Quebec west to Minnesota, south to northern Alabama and southwest to northern Arkansas. It is absent from most of the Southern United States. The species also proliferates at middle elevations (+/-2000 ft above sea level) in the Columbia River basin, Pacific Northwest; as an off-site species. With 7 ft (over mature) class range diameter at breast height noted in the Imnaha River drainage as late as January 26, 2015.
Description
J. cinerea is a deciduoustree growing to 20m (66ft) tall, rarely 40m (130ft). Butternut is a slow-growing species, and rarely lives longer than 75 years. It has a 40–80cm stem diameter, with light gray bark.
The leaves are pinnate, 40–70cm long, with 11–17 leaflets, each leaflet 5–10cm long and 3–5cm broad. The whole leaf is downy-pubescent, and a somewhat brighter, yellower green than many other tree leaves.
Cracking Butternuts or White Walnuts Juglans cinerea
Quick breakdown of how I crack butternuts, which is similar to black walnuts. These are a delicious, buttery nut that are actually illegal to harvest in Minnesota, but legal in Wisconsin, which is because of the trees being protected as they're attacked by butternut canker.
Butternuts fall earlier than black walnuts, and I harvested these in September, where black walnuts I might get in October up here in the NorthI. After harvesting I dried them a couple layers deep in cardboard boxes in the garage. Keep the squirrels away from them.
After a month or two they were dry enough to crack. It took me a few tries, but this is the best method I found so far. Take a hammer, do it on a sturdy surface, I'm using a table here, but it's not ideal, get outside and do it on a rock, or some other su...
published: 20 Oct 2020
Juglans cinerea (butternut, white walnut)
published: 23 Oct 2020
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Juglans cinerea aka The Butternut Tree
Here is a quick example of the unique bark on the Butternut tree. Once you know it, and have found one, it's a great food source. The nuts can be used in baking recipes to replace butter. They are also very rich in flavor and can be added to virtually any dish.
If you do find one growing in the wild, it's always a good idea to try to grow another from it's nut. The population is on the decline is some places due to mold, heart rot, and animals.
It takes six to ten years to get nuts from a tree, but if you are patient, the reward is wonderful. As survival foods go, this is a great one for getting fat to burn (roughly 68.38 g per cup).
Happy hunting!
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_cinerea
https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/butternut/
published: 15 May 2020
Identifying Butternut tree (Juglans cinerea) vs Black Walnut trees (Juglans nigra)
The Butternut tree, also called White Walnut or Oilnut (Juglans cinerea) and how to distinguish it from the more common Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). I also show the Juglans hybrid, Juglans X bixbyi which is Butternut crossed with Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailanthifolia) also called Buartnut.
Butternut is under threat from Butternut Canker (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) which is rapidly removing the tree from the landscape. Pure butternuts have never been demonstrated to have resistance, but some J. X bixbyi and complex hybrids have. It would be helpful to the species for many people to grow Butternuts and hybrids so that Butternut germplasm (genetic diversity) may be preserved.
More detailed information on identifying Butternut hybrids can be found here:
https://www.exten...
published: 24 Mar 2023
Planting the Native Butternut or White Walnut
We found some exciting seeds that taste ohhhhhh sooooo good!
More information on Butternut, Juglans cinerea: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/butternut
Quick breakdown of how I crack butternuts, which is similar to black walnuts. These are a delicious, buttery nut that are actually illegal to harvest in Minneso...
Quick breakdown of how I crack butternuts, which is similar to black walnuts. These are a delicious, buttery nut that are actually illegal to harvest in Minnesota, but legal in Wisconsin, which is because of the trees being protected as they're attacked by butternut canker.
Butternuts fall earlier than black walnuts, and I harvested these in September, where black walnuts I might get in October up here in the NorthI. After harvesting I dried them a couple layers deep in cardboard boxes in the garage. Keep the squirrels away from them.
After a month or two they were dry enough to crack. It took me a few tries, but this is the best method I found so far. Take a hammer, do it on a sturdy surface, I'm using a table here, but it's not ideal, get outside and do it on a rock, or some other surface that can absorb the shock--you'll get better nuts for it.
After the nuts are cracked, I use a snips to spot-treat the shells to reveal whole halves, which is a great trick Sam Thayer showed me (Sam discusses these nuts in his first book, The Foragers Harvest).
Quick breakdown of how I crack butternuts, which is similar to black walnuts. These are a delicious, buttery nut that are actually illegal to harvest in Minnesota, but legal in Wisconsin, which is because of the trees being protected as they're attacked by butternut canker.
Butternuts fall earlier than black walnuts, and I harvested these in September, where black walnuts I might get in October up here in the NorthI. After harvesting I dried them a couple layers deep in cardboard boxes in the garage. Keep the squirrels away from them.
After a month or two they were dry enough to crack. It took me a few tries, but this is the best method I found so far. Take a hammer, do it on a sturdy surface, I'm using a table here, but it's not ideal, get outside and do it on a rock, or some other surface that can absorb the shock--you'll get better nuts for it.
After the nuts are cracked, I use a snips to spot-treat the shells to reveal whole halves, which is a great trick Sam Thayer showed me (Sam discusses these nuts in his first book, The Foragers Harvest).
Here is a quick example of the unique bark on the Butternut tree. Once you know it, and have found one, it's a great food source. The nuts can be used in baking...
Here is a quick example of the unique bark on the Butternut tree. Once you know it, and have found one, it's a great food source. The nuts can be used in baking recipes to replace butter. They are also very rich in flavor and can be added to virtually any dish.
If you do find one growing in the wild, it's always a good idea to try to grow another from it's nut. The population is on the decline is some places due to mold, heart rot, and animals.
It takes six to ten years to get nuts from a tree, but if you are patient, the reward is wonderful. As survival foods go, this is a great one for getting fat to burn (roughly 68.38 g per cup).
Happy hunting!
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_cinerea
https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/butternut/
Here is a quick example of the unique bark on the Butternut tree. Once you know it, and have found one, it's a great food source. The nuts can be used in baking recipes to replace butter. They are also very rich in flavor and can be added to virtually any dish.
If you do find one growing in the wild, it's always a good idea to try to grow another from it's nut. The population is on the decline is some places due to mold, heart rot, and animals.
It takes six to ten years to get nuts from a tree, but if you are patient, the reward is wonderful. As survival foods go, this is a great one for getting fat to burn (roughly 68.38 g per cup).
Happy hunting!
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_cinerea
https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/butternut/
The Butternut tree, also called White Walnut or Oilnut (Juglans cinerea) and how to distinguish it from the more common Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). I also sh...
The Butternut tree, also called White Walnut or Oilnut (Juglans cinerea) and how to distinguish it from the more common Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). I also show the Juglans hybrid, Juglans X bixbyi which is Butternut crossed with Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailanthifolia) also called Buartnut.
Butternut is under threat from Butternut Canker (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) which is rapidly removing the tree from the landscape. Pure butternuts have never been demonstrated to have resistance, but some J. X bixbyi and complex hybrids have. It would be helpful to the species for many people to grow Butternuts and hybrids so that Butternut germplasm (genetic diversity) may be preserved.
More detailed information on identifying Butternut hybrids can be found here:
https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/fnr/fnr-420-w.pdf
That said, DNA analysis is the only definitive way to show an individual tree is pure Butternut and not a complex hybrid with Juglans ailanthifolia backcrossed with true Butternut.
Source I used for my Buartnut and Butternut seedlings - Grimo Nut Nursery in Canada.
http://www.grimonut.com/
Stark Brothers also sells Butternuts sometimes:
https://www.starkbros.com/products/nut-trees/walnut-trees/american-butternut
To report a tree you can use:
https://treesnap.org/ - specifically for preserving trees threatened by invasive insects and diseases.
https://www.inaturalist.org/ - can be used to record the presence of any species.
The Butternut tree, also called White Walnut or Oilnut (Juglans cinerea) and how to distinguish it from the more common Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). I also show the Juglans hybrid, Juglans X bixbyi which is Butternut crossed with Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailanthifolia) also called Buartnut.
Butternut is under threat from Butternut Canker (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) which is rapidly removing the tree from the landscape. Pure butternuts have never been demonstrated to have resistance, but some J. X bixbyi and complex hybrids have. It would be helpful to the species for many people to grow Butternuts and hybrids so that Butternut germplasm (genetic diversity) may be preserved.
More detailed information on identifying Butternut hybrids can be found here:
https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/fnr/fnr-420-w.pdf
That said, DNA analysis is the only definitive way to show an individual tree is pure Butternut and not a complex hybrid with Juglans ailanthifolia backcrossed with true Butternut.
Source I used for my Buartnut and Butternut seedlings - Grimo Nut Nursery in Canada.
http://www.grimonut.com/
Stark Brothers also sells Butternuts sometimes:
https://www.starkbros.com/products/nut-trees/walnut-trees/american-butternut
To report a tree you can use:
https://treesnap.org/ - specifically for preserving trees threatened by invasive insects and diseases.
https://www.inaturalist.org/ - can be used to record the presence of any species.
We found some exciting seeds that taste ohhhhhh sooooo good!
More information on Butternut, Juglans cinerea: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/buttern...
We found some exciting seeds that taste ohhhhhh sooooo good!
More information on Butternut, Juglans cinerea: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/butternut
We found some exciting seeds that taste ohhhhhh sooooo good!
More information on Butternut, Juglans cinerea: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/butternut
Quick breakdown of how I crack butternuts, which is similar to black walnuts. These are a delicious, buttery nut that are actually illegal to harvest in Minnesota, but legal in Wisconsin, which is because of the trees being protected as they're attacked by butternut canker.
Butternuts fall earlier than black walnuts, and I harvested these in September, where black walnuts I might get in October up here in the NorthI. After harvesting I dried them a couple layers deep in cardboard boxes in the garage. Keep the squirrels away from them.
After a month or two they were dry enough to crack. It took me a few tries, but this is the best method I found so far. Take a hammer, do it on a sturdy surface, I'm using a table here, but it's not ideal, get outside and do it on a rock, or some other surface that can absorb the shock--you'll get better nuts for it.
After the nuts are cracked, I use a snips to spot-treat the shells to reveal whole halves, which is a great trick Sam Thayer showed me (Sam discusses these nuts in his first book, The Foragers Harvest).
Here is a quick example of the unique bark on the Butternut tree. Once you know it, and have found one, it's a great food source. The nuts can be used in baking recipes to replace butter. They are also very rich in flavor and can be added to virtually any dish.
If you do find one growing in the wild, it's always a good idea to try to grow another from it's nut. The population is on the decline is some places due to mold, heart rot, and animals.
It takes six to ten years to get nuts from a tree, but if you are patient, the reward is wonderful. As survival foods go, this is a great one for getting fat to burn (roughly 68.38 g per cup).
Happy hunting!
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_cinerea
https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/butternut/
The Butternut tree, also called White Walnut or Oilnut (Juglans cinerea) and how to distinguish it from the more common Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). I also show the Juglans hybrid, Juglans X bixbyi which is Butternut crossed with Japanese Walnut (Juglans ailanthifolia) also called Buartnut.
Butternut is under threat from Butternut Canker (Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum) which is rapidly removing the tree from the landscape. Pure butternuts have never been demonstrated to have resistance, but some J. X bixbyi and complex hybrids have. It would be helpful to the species for many people to grow Butternuts and hybrids so that Butternut germplasm (genetic diversity) may be preserved.
More detailed information on identifying Butternut hybrids can be found here:
https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/fnr/fnr-420-w.pdf
That said, DNA analysis is the only definitive way to show an individual tree is pure Butternut and not a complex hybrid with Juglans ailanthifolia backcrossed with true Butternut.
Source I used for my Buartnut and Butternut seedlings - Grimo Nut Nursery in Canada.
http://www.grimonut.com/
Stark Brothers also sells Butternuts sometimes:
https://www.starkbros.com/products/nut-trees/walnut-trees/american-butternut
To report a tree you can use:
https://treesnap.org/ - specifically for preserving trees threatened by invasive insects and diseases.
https://www.inaturalist.org/ - can be used to record the presence of any species.
We found some exciting seeds that taste ohhhhhh sooooo good!
More information on Butternut, Juglans cinerea: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/butternut
Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
Distribution
The distribution range of J. cinerea extends east to New Brunswick, and from southern Quebec west to Minnesota, south to northern Alabama and southwest to northern Arkansas. It is absent from most of the Southern United States. The species also proliferates at middle elevations (+/-2000 ft above sea level) in the Columbia River basin, Pacific Northwest; as an off-site species. With 7 ft (over mature) class range diameter at breast height noted in the Imnaha River drainage as late as January 26, 2015.
Description
J. cinerea is a deciduoustree growing to 20m (66ft) tall, rarely 40m (130ft). Butternut is a slow-growing species, and rarely lives longer than 75 years. It has a 40–80cm stem diameter, with light gray bark.
The leaves are pinnate, 40–70cm long, with 11–17 leaflets, each leaflet 5–10cm long and 3–5cm broad. The whole leaf is downy-pubescent, and a somewhat brighter, yellower green than many other tree leaves.