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General Information
NameButternut
Scientific NameJuglans cinerea
DescriptionJuglans cinerea, commonly known as Butternut or White Walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada. Juglans cinerea is a deciduous tree growing to 20 metres (66 ft) tall, rarely 40 metres (130 ft). Butternut grows quickly, but is rather short-lived for a tree, rarely living longer than 75 years. It has a 40?80 cm stem diameter, with light gray bark. The leaves are pinnate, 40?70 cm long, with 11?17 leaflets, each leaflet 5?10 cm long and 3?5 cm broad. The whole leaf is downy-pubescent, and a somewhat brighter, yellower green than many other tree leaves. The fruit is a nut, produced in bunches of 2?6 together; the nut is oblong-ovoid, 3?6 cm long and 2?4 cm broad, surrounded by a green husk before maturity in mid autumn.
Primary IDFOOD00316
Picture320
Classification
GroupNuts
Sub-GroupNuts
Taxonomy
SuperkingdomEukaryota
KingdomViridiplantae
PhylumStreptophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderFagales
FamilyJuglandaceae
GenusJuglans
Speciescinerea
VarietyNot Available
ITIS ID19250
Wikipedia IDJuglans_cinerea
Composition
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References
Content Reference— Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004).
— U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page.
— Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181.