Tree Talk: Butternut
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2025
- Another windy walnut Tree Talk! This time we're covering Juglans cinerea, known as butternut or white walnut (or the abbreviated "buttnut", at least among the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Forests team in Pennsylvania). This attractive, compact floodplain tree is prized for its tasty nuts and also produces nice wood, though its small sized and scattered nature make it more valuable for nuts than timber. It is unfortunately declining across much of its range and has been extirpated from parts of its range by Butternut Canker, an introduced fungus.
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Recorded 10/15/23 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Allyson "Buttnut" Davis.
I love butternuts dearly. My dad's home farm was covered with them, and my mom's dad logged a lot of them back in the 40's and 50's. I still have some butternut lumber from him that I inherited in my shop. It's like working the softest walnut you've ever seen. A sharp plane slices absolutely beautiful feather shavings from those boards. I'm hoping that I can get a few trees established on my land this year. Frankly, I miss eating the nuts every fall.
Please keep these going. I’m from New England and look forward to relevant tree talk which can be hard to find.
Been waoting for a new video. Thank you.
You’re enthusiasm for trees is appreciated.
We have a historic butternut in our yard. It is 100+ yrs old and GIANT. It is my favorite tree, which the kids have called it “Sunset”. She recently had a nice trim to keep her healthy.
Just this year I happened along two mid-sized butternut trees along a local creek in Fayette county PA and was thrilled. Both were producing nuts and so I gathered several of them and planted them downstream in suitable habitat. Hopefully my efforts will bear fruit, or nuts in this case. 🙂 I do enjoy the flavor and they are slightly easier to crack than black walnuts and not quite as messy.
Bro I absolutely love what your doing.
thank you. learn a lot from you. seems like every few years or so we have some new tree disease, to me this is very serious. it would be nice if congress would grant money for research to hopefully solve these problems. really sad about the emerald ash bore insects destroying such beautiful trees. keep up the good work.
it seems there is a disease ready and waiting to wipe out all the trees in this area. :(
Great videos! Ready to see some hickories!
Thank you for taking the time to add these valuable videos. I’ve just subscribed and will be viewing every one of your posts.
Just used your video to id a white walnut tree on the banks of the Nolichucky River here in East Tennessee. Thank you for your videos they’ve been so helpful.
Cool tree! Gonna see if I can find one!
Great information, I love these videos man, you're doing a good job. You should post more often if you can so we can keep watching these.
Lovely video! It looks like HEAVEN! Thank you very much for preparing these videos. Truly helpful the big letters with the main information and the maps. Also the detailed explanations about the bark and compound leaves. Your assistant is so cute! Best wishes!
Bro I'm so happy I ran into your videos. If you ever need any help on some trees I'd be happy to be with you
I love this tree, but I have had a very difficult time researching historical uses.
Thanks for drawing attention to it. With any luck it finds a community of supporters as robust as the American chestnut.