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Juglans microcarpa
Also called Texas Walnut, River Walnut, Little Black Walnut, Texas Black Walnut, Namboca, Nogalito
Little walnut is a large shrub or small tree, typically 3 to 9 m tall, native to streambanks and ravines in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and northern Mexico. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant native shade tree and needs full sun and well-drained soil.
Juglans microcarpa, known also as the little walnut, Texas walnut, Texas black walnut or little black walnut (as it belongs to the "black walnuts" section Juglans sect. Rhysocaryon), is a large shrub or small tree (10–30 ft tall) which grows wild along streams and ravines in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and the northernmost states of Mexico. It produces nuts with a width of 1/2—3/4 in. The pinnately compound leaves bear 7—25 untoothed to finely-toothed leaflets, each 1/4—1/2 in wide. It is found at elevations ranging from 700 ft to 6700 ft.
Two varieties are recognized: J. microcarpa var. microcarpa and J. microcarpa var. stewartii.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Juglans microcarpa 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.
