English walnut – FranLaff.com

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Common Name

English walnut

Scientific Name

Juglans regia

More Clues to ID

This is the species that is used as THE cultivated walnut tree. It has pinnately compound leaves with about 7 alternate leaflets, larger towards the tip or terminal end.

Humans have enjoyed these nuts for so long that in many languages the word for nut is a word for THIS nut. Its original range is long forgotten, but it is grown across Eurasia, with China being the largest exporter for the worldwide market.

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Image Credits

George Chernilevsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Beko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Giovanni Caudullo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pancrat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lukáš Mižoch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pancrat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
KaiKemmann, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Моходу Хеу, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
other pics in public domain or from Pixabay, etc

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