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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • 2^«j|>-*s -e>-#g%><js§>- ST TR! ^s> -m><z$?"<s ^> -^%,«?^.- WHITE WALNUT, OR BUTTERNUT (Juglans cincrea L.) TnE white walnut, usually called butternut in the North, is a smaller tree than the black walnut, though in the highlands and where it attains its best development, it reaches a height of 70 feet and a diameter of 3 feet. The trunk is usually forked or crooked, and this makes it less desirable for saw timber, The bark differs from that of the WHITE WALNUT, OR BUTTERNUT Twig, one-half natural size. Leaf, one-third natural size black walnut in being light gray on branches and on the trunk of small trees, becoming darker on large trees. This tree may also be distinguished from black wralnut by the velvet collars just above the scars left by last year's leaves. The compound leaves are 15 to 30 inches long, each with 11 to 17 sharp-pointed, oblong, finely toothed leaflets 2 to 3 inches long. The flowers are of two kinds on the same tree, the male in long yellow-green drooping catkins, the female recognized by the rather conspicuous red-fringed stigmas. The fruit is a nut enclosed in an oblong, somewhat pointed, yellowish green husk, about 2 inches long, which is covered with short rusty, clammy, sticky hairs. The nut has a rough, grooved shell and an oily, edible kernel. The wood is light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, light brown, and takes a good polish. It is used for interior finish of houses and for furniture. A yellow or orange dye can be made from the husks of the nuts. 19
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