Butternut (Juglans cinera) is a tree that is more valuable for its sweet oily tasting nuts than for its lumber. In fact, the genus name “juglans” means “nut of Jupiter.” The nuts are oval shaped ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...

Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published ...

Thousand cankers disease, a fungus spread by a beetle, can kill walnut and butternut trees by destroying tissue just beneath the bark. (New York State Invasive Species) Syracuse, N.Y. -- A tree ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...

Trees like the American chestnut and the American elm have suffered well-known population collapses due to the introduction of nonnative fungal pathogens. Less well known is the decimation of the ...

I found these nuts hanging from a tree in early June. The tree was as large as a big walnut tree with limbs that branched out several feet from the trunk. Some of the limbs reached down, almost ...

The butternut tree (Juglans cinerea), also known as a white walnut, was once a very common component of eastern forests. Butternuts belong to the same family as the black walnut, both preferring deep, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...