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Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts.All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not ...
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The nine or ten genera in the family have a total of around 50 species, [3] and include the commercially important nut-producing trees walnut (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), and hickory (Carya). The Persian walnut, Juglans regia, is one of the major nut crops of the world.
Juglandinae is a subtribe of the Juglandeae tribe, of the Juglandoideae subfamily, in the Juglandaceae family. [1] Walnut tree species make up the genus Juglans , which belongs to the subtribe Juglandinae.
It is a deciduous tree growing to 20 m (66 ft) tall, rarely 30 m (98 ft), and 40–80 centimetres (16–31 in) stem diameter, with light grey bark. The leaves are pinnate, 50–90 cm (20–35 in) long, with 11–17 leaflets, each leaflet 7–16 cm (3– 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 3–5 cm (1–2 in) broad. The whole leaf is downy-pubescent, and a ...
Walnut tree species comprise the Juglans genus, which belong to the Juglandeae tribe. Tribe Juglandeae Subtribe Caryinae. Carya Nutt. – hickory and pecan; Annamocarya A.Chev. Subtribe Juglandinae. Cyclocarya Iljinsk – wheel wingnut; Juglans L. – walnut; Pterocarya Kunth – wingnut
The male flowers are in drooping catkins 9–40 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, the wind-pollinated female flowers (April–May) are terminal, in spikes of 4 to 10, ripening in August–October into nuts, 3–7.5 by 3–5 cm (1–3 by 1–2 in), with densely glandular pubescent green husk and very thick shell. [citation needed]
Juglans mollis, the Mexican walnut, is a species of walnut in the family Juglandaceae, native to Mexico. [3] It was first described by Georg Engelmann . [ 2 ] Its habitat is in temperate and tropical forests, at altitudes of 800–2,500 metres (2,600–8,200 ft).