Juglans nigra

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NAMING

Scientific Name: Juglans nigra
Family: Juglandareae
Common: black walnut

HABITAT

Native
Habitat: Mesic sites, above the river
Range: Eastern North America

TREE TRUNK

Size: 100 ft tall
Bark: – deeply furrowed, dark (lighter brown when shaved)

LEAVES

deciduous
evenly pinnately compound
8-22 leaflets
serrated margins
cuminate tips

REPRODUCTION

Flowers:
Fruit: large, thick husks with nut inside (fleshy)

USES

Wildlife – good for birds when it rots and opens up.

Commercial – Native Americans would grind up husk to sun fish.  Most valuable timber species (furniture, coffins, hardwood floors).  Stain and dyeing

TOLERANCES

salt: no
fire: high
flood: no
drought: low
shade: no

Carya illinoinensis

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NAMING

Scientific Name: Carya illinoinensis
Family: Juglandaceae
Common: pecan tree

HABITAT

Native
Habitat: mesic to bottomlands
Range: Northeast -> New Mexico

TREE TRUNK

Size: 140 ft tall
Bark: shaggy plating, hard

LEAVES

Composition: Oddly pinnately compound
Arrangement: alternate
Base: inequilateral
Margins: serrated
Color: dark green above, glaborous underside

REPRODUCTION

Flowers: –
Fruit: green husk

USES

Commercial – fruit, not wood

TOLERANCES

Fire – Low
Flood – Low
Shade – None
Salt – None
Drought – None