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American Butternut 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. To read more, follow this link: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/ark_product_detail/american_butternut

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