Butternut - White Walnut (Juglans cinerea)

Family: Juglandaceae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Bloom Color: Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Early spring, Late spring, Mid spring. Form: Rounded.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds, Sap/Syrup

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

sweet tasting with a rich agreeable flavour[11, 62, 63. — Seed - eaten raw or ground into a powder and used with cereal flours in making cakes, biscuits, muffins, bread etc.; Oily and sweet tasting with a rich agreeable flavour[11, 62, 63.; The oil in the seed is not very stable and the seed soon becomes rancid once it is opened.; The kernel is usually only about 20% by weight of the whole seed and is hard to extract.

Habitat & North American Range

Usually found in rich moist soils of woods and river terraces, but it also grows on dry rocky soils, especially if these are on limestone.. (Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7)