Juglans cinerea


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Related to Juglans cinerea: butternut tree, white walnut
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Noun1.Juglans cinerea - North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nutsJuglans cinerea - North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
butternut - oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
genus Juglans, Juglans - type genus of the Juglandaceae
walnut tree, walnut - any of various trees of the genus Juglans
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For example, in eastern forests, butternut (Juglans cinerea) has experienced over 90% mortality from butternut canker caused by the nonnative fungal pathogen Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum (Parks et al., 2013).
One distinctive identification trait found on black walnuts and their close relative, the butternut (Juglans cinerea), is the pith.
The tallest butternut (Juglans cinerea) in Winnipeg (15 m) is a boulevard tree on Waterloo Street near Academy.