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The Best Nut Trees To Grow In Your Yard (And Which Ones To Avoid)

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Over the Garden Gate: Butternuts favored by forest foragers

The Butternut tree (Juglans cinerea) is a native deciduous hardwood tree related to the Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). Also known as White Walnut, the wood from Butternut is used for woodworking, ...
The Olympian

Historic Tumwater tree to live on through offspring designated ‘heritage’ tree

A butternut tree that is the offspring of a 170-year-old tree planted by Tumwater pioneer George Washington Bush was planted last February in Tumwater’s Isabella Bush Park. The city’s tree board is ...
Times Argus

Their goal: saving the butternut tree

Butternut country is so distinctive that Parker Nichols knows he has arrived even before he sees the first butternut tree. As the proprietor of Vermont WildWoods, a flooring and millwork company in ...
Mankato Free Press

Coming to terms with trees: Butternut scarcity and chainsaw remedies

Q: What happened to all the butternuts? I remember as a child that these trees were very common and my parents always harvested the nuts. Now, they are so scarce, and without the nuts, I am not sure ...
Purdue University

ID That Tree: Butternut

In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...