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 ...

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 ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Capitol Campus tree-planting project that got off to a controversial start last spring appears to be headed for a sad ending. A butternut tree transplanted from the former homestead of Tumwater ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers from Purdue and Colorado State universities have discovered that the fungus responsible for thousand cankers disease, a lethal affliction of walnut trees and related ...

Siblings Wendy and John Leavitt stand in front of the century-old butternut walnut tree next to Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. The pair hope to save the tree from an expansion to the athletic complex.

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, ...