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Juglans cinerea
Also called White Walnut, Butternut Tree, Butternut Or White Walnut, Oilnut
Butternut is a deciduous hardwood tree of the walnut family, native to eastern North America, that grows slowly to about 30 m and rarely lives beyond 75 years. It is grown mainly for its nuts and timber in cool temperate climates, and is widely cultivated as a shade or landscape tree where it is hardy.
Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
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 (about 610 m or 2,000 ft above sea level) in the Columbia River basin/Pacific Northwest, as an off-site species. Trees with 2.1 m or 7 ft (over mature) class range diameter at breast height were noted in the Imnaha River drainage as late as January 26, 2015. Butternut favors a cooler climate than black walnut and its range does not extend into the Deep South. Its northern range extends into Wisconsin and Minnesota where the growing season is too short for black walnut.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Juglans cinerea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
