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Walnuts Inside of a walnut in growth Three-segment walnut Walnut shell inside its green husk Artistic depiction of two walnuts (Adriaen Coorte, 1702). A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia.
Juglans regia, the common walnut [1] or Persian walnut [2] amongst other regional names, is a species of walnut. It is native to Eurasia in at least southwest and central Asia and southeast Europe, but its exact natural area is obscure due to its long history of cultivation.
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 ...
The Juglandaceae are a plant family known as the walnut family. They are trees , or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales . Members of this family are native to the Americas , Eurasia , and Southeast Asia .
List of culinary nuts; List of dried foods; List of edible seeds; List of snack foods; List of vegetables; Local food – Food produced within a short distance of where it is consumed; Neolithic Revolution – Transition in human history from hunter-gatherer to settled peoples; New World crops – Crops native to the New World
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A number of globally cultivated fruits may have originated in prehistoric Iran, including pomegranates (locally known today as anâr), dates (from the Persian Gulf coastal region), Persian walnuts (gerdu or formerly/dialectally gowz), and possibly grapes (from the northwest), [citation needed] though in each case the precise place of original cultivation is difficult to know with certainty.
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