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 ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

By Kelly Bahl Jay C. Hormel Nature Center Outreach Naturalist Minnesota boasts incredible coniferous and hardwood forests in ...

Larry Severeid has switched patients, from human beings to trees. The retired doctor purchased 147 acres near Rockland, where he has tenaciously worked to cultivate species important to wildlife, ...

Most of us are aware of the sad demise of our American chestnut trees. Until 1900 they were a major component of Eastern forests. It has been said that a squirrel could travel in them from the ...

Do you hate to lose stuff? Most of us do. It stinks when we lose something that was really valuable, right? If that uncomfortable feeling of loss is something you care to fight, then consider the ...