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R. juglandis was first described by E. T. Cresson, Jr. in 1920 from material from the exocarp of fruit of Juglans regia (the English or Persian walnut tree) in Arizona. [1] The species was first named the black walnut fly in literature. This served to differentiate it from the walnut husk maggot Rhagoletis suavis. However, the common name ...
Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882 ( 1882-03-06 ) , Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for Black Americans.
With about 65% of the U.S.'s annual wild harvest, [25] the U.S. state of Missouri is home to the world's largest processor and distributor of black walnuts, which the Missouri Department of Conservation considers to be the state's most valuable timber. [26] In 1990, Missouri named the "Eastern Black Walnut" as its official tree nut. [27]
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 ...
This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Virginia. The oldest college or university in Virginia is The College of William and Mary , founded in 1693. In 2010, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine became the newest.
Juglans hindsii, commonly called the Northern California black walnut and Hinds's black walnut, is a species of walnut tree native to the western United States (California and Oregon). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is commonly called claro walnut by the lumber industry and woodworkers, and is the subject of some confusion over its being used as ...
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.
The farm is near Steele's Tavern and Raphine, close to the northern border of Rockbridge and Augusta counties in the U.S. state of Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech. The museum has free admission and covers 5 acres (2.0 ha) of the initial 532-acre (215.3 ha) farm.