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American Butternut

Julans Cineria
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Also labeled the White Walnut, the American Butternut, is a long-lived, slow-growing, shade tree that is a member of the Walnut family.  This tree grows along the eastern US where the climate is just right for it to produce a sweet and buttery-flavored nut with an incredibly high protein value.  The tree also produces other valued commodities, as its sap is used to produce syrup, its wood used as craft-wood and nuts used for their oils.

In 1967, foresters noticed a canker caused by an introduced fungus, which infects butternut trees.  This disease spread rapidly throughout its entire range in the eastern US.  As a result of this infection, the US Fish and Wildlife Service nominated the American Butternut as the first tree species candidate for the Endangered Species List.


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