When was Juglans cinerea created?

1. What are Juglans cinerea used for?
2. Where are butternut trees native?
3. Are butternut trees endangered?
4. Where does butternut wood come from?
5. Can you eat butternut?
6. Will butternut trees grow in clay soil?
7. Are butternut trees rare?
8. How common are butternut trees?
9. Is butternut wood hard or soft?
10. How do you identify a butternut tree?
11. How fast does a butternut tree grow?
12. Can you cut down a butternut tree in Ontario?
13. Why are butternut trees dying?
14. What is killing the butternut tree?

What are Juglans cinerea used for?

Used to make furniture, cabinetry, instrument cases, interior woodworks, hand-carved wall panels, trim, church decoration and altars. Nut popularly used in New England for making maple-butternut candy. Early settlers used fruit husks and inner bark to make orange or yellow dye and the root bark for a laxative.

Where are butternut trees native?

The butternut tree is native to eastern North America, ranging from southern Quebec down to Alabama and as far west as Minnesota and Arkansas. The American Indians favored the nut in their diets, but it also became a staple of early settlers.

Are butternut trees endangered?

The butternut is now threatened everywhere by a can- ker disease, and in many places it is rare. The butternut is short-lived compared to many associated tree spe- cies, with a normal life span of less than 100 years.

Where does butternut wood come from?

Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.

Can you eat butternut?

Are butternuts edible by humans? They most certainly are, and have been eaten by Native Americans for centuries. Butternut trees, or white walnut trees, produce rich and delicious nuts. The butternut is an oily nut that can be eaten as is when mature or prepared in a variety of ways.

Will butternut trees grow in clay soil?

Although they can grow on a large variety of sites, butternuts grow best on loam (soil composed of clay and sand, which is ideal for growing plants) that is moist, rich and well-drained.

Are butternut trees rare?

Groves of butternut trees were once a common feature along streams and in woodlots of the eastern United States. ... Healthy butternut trees are now rare because of a lethal new fungal disease called butternut canker.

How common are butternut trees?

Through most of its range butternut is not a common tree, and its frequency is declining (4). The ranges of butternut and black walnut (Juglans nigra) overlap, but butternut occurs farther north and not as far south as black walnut.

Is butternut wood hard or soft?

Butternut heartwood is medium brown and resembles American Walnut, it's just not as dark. It is straight grained and coarse, but with a soft texture.

How do you identify a butternut tree?

You can tell a butternut from its close relative, the black walnut, by looking at the nuts, bark and twigs. Butternuts are small to medium-sized trees. Mature trees are seldom more than 21 metres in height and 90 centimetres in diameter. Compared to other tree species, butternuts are short-lived.

How fast does a butternut tree grow?

They are fairly slow-growing trees, adding less than 12 inches per year. Because they have deep taproots, it is quite hard to move butternuts once they are established. In the right location, they will live happily for as much as 75 years.

Can you cut down a butternut tree in Ontario?

Generally, it is an offence under the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA) to kill, harm, or take a Butternut tree. However, Ontario Regulation 242/08 (under the ESA) provides exemptions for some activities pertaining to Butternut.

Why are butternut trees dying?

What threatens it. Butternut Canker is a fungal disease that spreads quickly and can kill a tree within a few years. This fungus has already had a devastating impact on North American Butternut populations. Surveys in eastern Ontario show that most trees are infected, and perhaps one-third have already been killed.

What is killing the butternut tree?

The butternut tree is being killed throughout its range by a canker caused by the fungus Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum, described as a new species in 1979. Although there are no reports of this fungus causing disease outside of North America, it is thought to be an exotic pathogen.