{"id":15537,"date":"2023-08-10T06:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/juglans_cinerea_butternut_white_walnut\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:57:22","slug":"juglanscinerea","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/juglanscinerea\/","title":{"rendered":"Juglans cinerea – butternut (white walnut)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Butternut grows naturally in the north-eastern United States and also \u2013 though rarely – in southern Canada. It is a large multi-stemmed tree with grey bark and a broad crown. The decorative oddpinnate leaves are 25-50 cms (10-20 inches) long, with 11-19 leaflets in opposite pairs. The flowers are unpretentious, but the fruit is a hard-shelled nut 6-8 cms long inside a sticky fleshy covering, ripening in September. The shell is sharp-ribbed into sections and needs to be handled carefully to avoid lacerations.<\/p>\n

In America suitable plants have been selected to produce new forms and subspecies whose shells break more easily and contain bigger tasty nuts. The species is also used worldwide in landscaping.<\/p>\n

At Mustila, the walnuts are among the most eye-catching of the broadleaf species because of their foliage. The butternut is among the first species to have been planted on Etel\u00e4rinne (Southern slope). It takes on autumn colour, a beautiful yellow, later than the Manchurian walnut, which is the hardiest of the genus.<\/p>\n