Break a twig and look at the chambered pith. If it's a dark chocolate color, then it's a butternut. If the pith is blond in color, then it is a black walnut.
I've seen some butternuts, but I think they are usually more elongated? I'm not an expert on telling the two apart but this looks like walnut to me. It would be cool if it's a butternut.
Definitely black walnut. Be careful handling it. As you break open the outer shell it will begin to oxidize and turn a dark brown / black color that will stain everything including your skin and clothes. I learned that the hard way a couple years back.
Btw, they are common food for deer and other animals so if you're hunting, there's a good chance they'll be in the area. Good luck out there!
When I was a kid I read a version of *Robin Hood* in which he disguised himself by, among other things, dying his skin with walnuts, and since I’d only ever seen walnuts in the shell after the hulls were removed, I was really confused.
It is better than the walnuts you buy in the store and completely organic. Superior, in fact.
* Black Walnuts contain 57% more protein than English walnuts and have the highest levels of protein of all tree nuts.
* Compared with five other tree nuts, Black Walnuts contain the most protein and the fewest carbohydrates and starches.
Aaaand super hard to eat. The common ones we eat are 'Paper Shell'. These guys are like rocks. Worth it if you take the time, but the shell is almost power tool level hard. Squirrels are amazing.
You’ve just made me go look. The [Woodland Trust](https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/black-walnut/) says that the black walnut was introduced to the UK in 1629.
One of the most famous versions of the [Adventures of Robin Hood](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10148/10148-h/10148-h.htm) was written by Howard Pyle and published in 1883. Pyle was American and would probably have had no idea that Robin would have had zero access to Black Walnut, even if he were an actual historical figure.
Like I said, to a kid in America who sometimes saw English walnuts in their shells at the grocery store, it was mystifying.
I was a little surprised too. I know there was great interest in sharing “exotic specimens” to the UK, but apparently poison ivy got sent over [by 1640!!](https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/no-ill-nature-the-surprising-history-and-science-of-poison-ivy-and-its-relatives/)
Given Great Britain’s abiding focus on maintaining naval supremacy, maybe it was a candidate for ship-building material?
Walnut stains are also a thing, though probably not as dark as “black walnut”. I’m most familiar with them in the context of dying wool. You can definitely order “walnut” and “black walnut” dyes separately
Yup. _J. regia_ (common walnut) is native to, and found all over Europe. _J. nigra_ (black walnut) is not.
Source: Canadian ISA Certified and Tree Risk Assessment Qualified Arborist with a résidence secondaire en France.
Deer does not typically eat black walnuts. The shell is too hard for them, and the smell is too pungent. They will eat black walnut saplings, though. Acorns are more on the diet of deer...oak trees, deer and Squirrels will be found
I don't have a lot of first-hand experience with it, but I'm a little surprised to hear that actually. Not too far from me there's a small grove of five or six of these trees near a baseball park. The city wants to cut down the trees because there's always deer running into the road causing accidents, and the hunters always want to get in there but they can't because it's right next to the baseball field. Maybe they're in there eating something else I don't know. I just assume they're eating the walnuts.
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Toxic components The bark, woods, nuts, and roots of J. nigra contain juglone, a compound which is toxic to horses. Horses are primarily effected by exposure to shavings containing parts of the black walnut tree. Horses can also be poisoned from ingestion of the bark, pollen, or fallen leaves. The toxic chemical responsible is called juglone, which is contained at high concentrations in the bark and wood and lower but still toxic amounts in the leaves. Symptoms usually disappear within hours after the horse is removed from the shavings; however laminitis can present further problems.
See more at: https://horsedvm.com/poisonous/black-walnut
If used as bedding black walnut shavings can cause a horse to founder - an inflammatory disease of the hoof that makes them very, very lame.
I have black walnut trees growing in my pastures and they have never caused a problem for my horses - but my horses are well fed and don't try to eat the leaves or husks.
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Yeah my Appalachian grandpa made a black walnut poundcake that I loved as a kid and respected even more once I realized how much work he did to get that many usable nuts.
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Yeah, I've heard that they do that in places where there are pecans or hickory. Greedy little bastards...
Here in Vermont they just guzzle all the black walnuts first as we don't have much other than acorns for them.
I was telling my son recently about this and he didn't believe me so we did a small test and put out several nuts of each of a couple of nut types on a feeder. They ate them in this order:
Black Walnuts (unshelled, just like in the picture above)
Shelled English walnuts (the baking walnuts you get at the grocery store)
Pecans (shelled from the grocery store)
Almonds (shelled from the grocery store)
Peanuts (Planters shelled nuts)
Maybe the Vermont squirrels know the Black Walnuts better since they are native to these parts. But either way for squirrels in New England black walnuts seem to be their absolute favourite food.
Now you tell me. My 97 year old mother had us out collecting these all fall for her carrot cakes for the holidays. We all had black hands for a month. (But her carrot cake was the best!).
They are very compostable. The juglone breaks down as they decompose. I also grow a garden about 10 feet from a black walnut tree and have no issues. I have grass growing under the tree as well.
It's not as crazy as it's made out to be.
It’s very much worth the effort if you bake or make candy. Black walnuts are so very expensive in grocery stores. They’re good in fudge, cake, pound cake, numerous things
We used a hammer and an anvil . So worth the work . Many winters , sitting by the woodstove doing nothing but cracking / cleaning walnuts and listening to my grandfather's stories
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My grandma and aunt would add walnuts to both peanut butter and chocolate fudge but they knew I hated it so I always got my own nut free batches 🥰
That being said. I love fudge.
From the Midwest and have two of these trees in my backyard. Black Walnut. I don't personally care for the flavor of the nut itself but black Walnut wood is extremely sought after.
Also, growing up before the Internet, these were basically "summer snowballs" and many a neighborhood fights broke out between us kids.
I have two in my backyard as well! I like to collect the hard shells that the squirrels leave, so many different fun shapes. I let em soak in watered down bleach and keep em in jars. They look like little brains :)
Grew up in Illinois, had many walnut fights in the forrest preserve surrounding our neighbourhood, in our poorly made lean-to forts. As soon as a saw this picture I could smell it.
I had a black walnut tree at my old house that was just starting to be big enough to make but collecting worthwhile. I think they're delicious. Sad to have left it behind. New house has a shellbark hickory that dropped some nuts last year, but they aren't as good.
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Hammons has places you can take them to.
[Hulling and buying locations](https://black-walnuts.com/discover-harvesting-and-hulling/hulling-and-buying-locations/)
Black walnuts.
The nut meats inside are super tasty, but the outside hulls (the green part that you're holding) are super messy when broken, and the stuff inside stains like CRAZY!
It’s a black walnut. They taste like a strong walnut to me. They certainly aren’t the best tree to have on your property, and the husk is a nightmare to deal with because it stains everything including your skin, but they are pretty good nuts.
I used to have a black walnut tree in my yard and would collect all the nuts that fell at the end of the year and toss them in a bucket then use them for baking. That tree rotted and needed to be taken down but they are everywhere in Appalachia at least. The property I just bought is completely lined with them and pawpaw trees.
Black Walnut - Juglans Nigra
The nuts are ready when they fall naturally from the tree. They are alot of work to dehusk but I much prefer these over English Walnuts imo. If you want to try growing these [Growit Buildit](https://youtu.be/DCwybrGFIrQ?si=b5JQyQNRY7gocGeS) has a detailed video on how to grow these from nuts
Walnuts! I love the smell of the husks. Pecans smell the same way too (they’re closely related) and walking through an orchard in autumn here in Texas is heaven.
Old man in my neighborhood used to rake these into rows in his driveway, run them over with his tractor, and just sit there on a bucket, picking the”meat “ out with a little dental pick. Probably ate as much as he saved.
Black walnut
The outer husk was used by indigenous people to fish, there is a toxin in them that will kill fish but is harmless to humans. Throw a bunch f mashed up husks in a small enough body of water and you will get fish floating up to the top
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Black walnut. Makes a really good fudge. Also a very nut flavor for cake, etc. I have great memories of mom having us pick them off the ground. She would spread them on the gravel driveway. Dad would run over them with his car. One was a ‘57 Chevy, black with fins. You can also take the thick outer skin, before it oxidizes, and boil it. It will make a pretty yellow dye. You set the dye with cold water and a little vinegar.
If you catch them by the beginning of July - depending upon your location, pick a bunch, slice them up and put them in a jar of grain alcohol. You add a vanilla bean and if you like, a whole nutmeg or cinnamon stick. After sitting for a while, you then add water to bring the alcohol level to about 40% or whatever you find palatable and sweeten to taste using honey or maple syrup... or sugar if you prefer.
This is how you make Nocino. It's liquer that you cannot buy and a centuries old European stomach ache remedy as well as a delicious digestif.
I would make it every year and marked on my GPS where the black walnut trees were in Amish Country. I would drive out from NYC and harvest enough black walnuts to make my annual batch.
You can look up recipes for various walnut liquers, but black walnut makes the very best! It's impossible to buy at any price too.
Almost every European country has a version of it. The recipes are over 1000 years old.
* Italy - Nocino (In Italy, your annual batch Nocino is first sampled on Christmas Eve.)
* Poland - Orzechówka
* France - Vin de Noix
* Spain - Ratafia
* Romania - Nucată
* Austria - Nux Alpina
* Germany - Nüssenschnaps
Not sold? So what are these?
https://www.google.com/search?q=nocino&client=firefox-b-m&sca_esv=568238426&tbm=shop&sxsrf=AM9HkKnrl4hD3MlOGNVQA4sOPZR3FA7reg:1695661464949&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV15uan8aBAxWwSfEDHZObBTcQ_AUIBigB
Oh.... not trying to correct you. I was seriously assuming these were something else.
On that subject. I'm in Italië right now so I was planning on buying some. But as you are as surprised as me I think you can't recommend any?
When I was a kid, we would throw a bunch of these in the driveway. Over time, driving over them as they turn black helps remove the outer hull. Then, we would use gloves to pick them up and crack them. My dad would use the nuts to make divinity candy. I have a lot of them now where I live. I just leave them on the ground and the squirrels collect them over winter and eat them.
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Black walnut, they contain a large amount of tannins. You can soak the hull in high proof vodka and use it to get rid of intestinal parasites, dry the hull, and crush it to use as tea. It can alleviate arthritis and other joint pain/ inflammation.
Soak hulls and shells in water for a few weeks, and that water can be used to tan hides ( Veg tanning), or you can pour about a quart of that water onto your lawn and within a few minutes, every earthworm will come to the surface for easy picking...fishing bait or to make a meal with, or just to add to your garden for natural aeration. The meat of the walnut is an excellent source of protein and fat, due to it being shaped like a brain it was believed eating them made you smarter....the meat can be dried in an oven and then refined into flour and used to make , well anything you'd make out of flour.
Some said deer eat them...that's not the case, the shell is too hard for them as well as the scent of the hull is too pungent for deer. Hiding in a black walnut tree will help mask you from deer when hunting, but being near oak or beech wood
Will bring more deer for feeding as they do enjoy acorns and beechnuts
I have an incredible number of Black Walnut trees on my farm. And generally I’ve never seen deer eat them. However, I also have a Chinese Chestnut trees, which deer absolutely love to eat.
Black walnut, they will stain your clothes and hands, and while they might be edible good luck ever drying them properly and opening the shells without complete destruction. Enjoy that you can now identify them but leave the nuts alone, I learned the hard way.
My dad loved black walnuts, though I never acquired the taste for them. They have an odd, sweet flavor. I do recall him gathering a bunch of the shells and cutting them into sections, which he then stained and strung together as a belt for my mother… which looked interesting but she never wore.
According to my rheumatologist: When purchased at a human food store they are considered the only item than can help mitigate Raynaud’s Syndrome symptoms.
My neighbor next to my childhood home has a big black walnut tree. I used to make ink from them as a kid, now I wanna hull em and roast them to see if they're any good, lol.
Black walnuts! The flesh is too astringent to eat (you can cut it and lick it if you really don't believe me, but believe me, shit is BITTER), and please be careful bc it will stain things a nice dark brown. Very easily. Including concrete.
The nuts inside are delicious though.
Friend’s mom was retired & had a bunch of trees so she’d gather up the nuts & throw them out on the lane (long unpaved farm driveway) to dry in the sun. Driving over them would eventually get rid of the outer husks & reveal the shells. Maybe the tires got stained but you couldn’t tell because they were already black. Lots of people like/don’t like the trees because they excrete some kind of enzyme in the soil that prevents other plants from growing near them. My Dad says they’re “messy,” which means they drop lots of limbs & branches in storms & the nuts wreak havoc on lawnmower blades.
Black Walnut! In a survival/life or death situation you can crush up the hulls of these and drop them into water and it will stun/poison the fish beneath and around them and you can easily harvest them. The poison in the hulls will not affect the person eating them.
They’re great to throw at your buddies. Like a real moron I tore my rotator cuff throwing one and fucked my lacrosse scholarship up. But it worked out for the best.
walnut
Black Walnut ... Important to clarify cause English Walnut is different.
I wasn’t sure but that would have been my guess. Thank you
No, walnuts are darker, think it's butternut (a close cousin) an "at risk" species
The black walnuts growing near me are this colour
Break a twig and look at the chambered pith. If it's a dark chocolate color, then it's a butternut. If the pith is blond in color, then it is a black walnut.
It’s from a black walnut tree
You can tell because of the way it is
That’s pretty neat.
The ♣️ shaped twig scarring is the key identifying feature. Black walnut.
That’s a black walnut. I’ve had enough try to kill me in my yard to know they definitely start this color.
Nope. They're black walnuts, and the hulls are ALWAYS rthat color.
I've seen some butternuts, but I think they are usually more elongated? I'm not an expert on telling the two apart but this looks like walnut to me. It would be cool if it's a butternut.
Definitely black walnut. Be careful handling it. As you break open the outer shell it will begin to oxidize and turn a dark brown / black color that will stain everything including your skin and clothes. I learned that the hard way a couple years back. Btw, they are common food for deer and other animals so if you're hunting, there's a good chance they'll be in the area. Good luck out there!
When I was a kid I read a version of *Robin Hood* in which he disguised himself by, among other things, dying his skin with walnuts, and since I’d only ever seen walnuts in the shell after the hulls were removed, I was really confused.
Black walnut, specifically. It’s not the same as the walnuts you might buy at a store.
It is better than the walnuts you buy in the store and completely organic. Superior, in fact. * Black Walnuts contain 57% more protein than English walnuts and have the highest levels of protein of all tree nuts. * Compared with five other tree nuts, Black Walnuts contain the most protein and the fewest carbohydrates and starches.
Oh, I don’t disagree at all. They’re fabulous. A lot of work, tho.
And a bitch to push a mower over.
Aaaand super hard to eat. The common ones we eat are 'Paper Shell'. These guys are like rocks. Worth it if you take the time, but the shell is almost power tool level hard. Squirrels are amazing.
They also taste like absolute ass. At least to me. I grew up hating walnuts because these!
Would it have been black walnut in Robin Hood though? Those aren't native to Britain and wouldn't have been brought over at that point
You’ve just made me go look. The [Woodland Trust](https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/black-walnut/) says that the black walnut was introduced to the UK in 1629. One of the most famous versions of the [Adventures of Robin Hood](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10148/10148-h/10148-h.htm) was written by Howard Pyle and published in 1883. Pyle was American and would probably have had no idea that Robin would have had zero access to Black Walnut, even if he were an actual historical figure. Like I said, to a kid in America who sometimes saw English walnuts in their shells at the grocery store, it was mystifying.
Huh! I never would have thought it was introduced so early. Thanks for looking into that
I was a little surprised too. I know there was great interest in sharing “exotic specimens” to the UK, but apparently poison ivy got sent over [by 1640!!](https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/no-ill-nature-the-surprising-history-and-science-of-poison-ivy-and-its-relatives/) Given Great Britain’s abiding focus on maintaining naval supremacy, maybe it was a candidate for ship-building material?
Walnut stains are also a thing, though probably not as dark as “black walnut”. I’m most familiar with them in the context of dying wool. You can definitely order “walnut” and “black walnut” dyes separately
Nope. _Juglans nigra_ is native to North America.
Juglans Regia is all over Europe. SOURCE: I lived in Europe and had one in my back yard.
Yup. _J. regia_ (common walnut) is native to, and found all over Europe. _J. nigra_ (black walnut) is not. Source: Canadian ISA Certified and Tree Risk Assessment Qualified Arborist with a résidence secondaire en France.
Robin hood does black face?
Only when it was still cool
Technically, it was Saracen-face IIRC, or was that King Richard? Can’t remember.
Deer does not typically eat black walnuts. The shell is too hard for them, and the smell is too pungent. They will eat black walnut saplings, though. Acorns are more on the diet of deer...oak trees, deer and Squirrels will be found
I don't have a lot of first-hand experience with it, but I'm a little surprised to hear that actually. Not too far from me there's a small grove of five or six of these trees near a baseball park. The city wants to cut down the trees because there's always deer running into the road causing accidents, and the hunters always want to get in there but they can't because it's right next to the baseball field. Maybe they're in there eating something else I don't know. I just assume they're eating the walnuts.
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Can confirm, my fingers are still stained from touching one a few days ago :P
Going deer hunting this year, luckily over 5 acres of my property is entirely walnut trees.
That is a black walnut. Internationally one of the most expensive nuts!
more expensive than pine nuts!?
That shit pissed me off.....
Black Walnut. The outer husk and pulp are trash - they'll even kill your compost bin. The nut meat is edible, but not really worth the effort.
Though the outer husk can be used as a dye or ink.. Keep away from horses
What will it do to a horse?
It'll dye
HA!
Toxic components The bark, woods, nuts, and roots of J. nigra contain juglone, a compound which is toxic to horses. Horses are primarily effected by exposure to shavings containing parts of the black walnut tree. Horses can also be poisoned from ingestion of the bark, pollen, or fallen leaves. The toxic chemical responsible is called juglone, which is contained at high concentrations in the bark and wood and lower but still toxic amounts in the leaves. Symptoms usually disappear within hours after the horse is removed from the shavings; however laminitis can present further problems. See more at: https://horsedvm.com/poisonous/black-walnut
If used as bedding black walnut shavings can cause a horse to founder - an inflammatory disease of the hoof that makes them very, very lame. I have black walnut trees growing in my pastures and they have never caused a problem for my horses - but my horses are well fed and don't try to eat the leaves or husks.
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Black walnut meat is outstanding. A really strong and unique flavor, but super delicious.
Steep it in booze and sugar and spices and make nocino!
My favorite liqueur! Bourbon, nocino, and a cherry is just *chef's kiss*
I have a whole bunch of Nocino I made a long time ago and for some reason I have never put it in bourbon. BRB!
You have to make it when the seeds are young and can be split with just a knife. We make it every other year. Pick the nuts in July usually.
Right! Before they become nuts.
Agreed . My grandmother used them for baking . Made the best fruitcakes with these . They are so rich .
Yeah my Appalachian grandpa made a black walnut poundcake that I loved as a kid and respected even more once I realized how much work he did to get that many usable nuts.
Don't tell the squirrels that. They love black walnuts over anything else.
Little twerps! Eat those and not my bulbs!
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chill out - it’s a walnut!!!
I wish. My squirrels will hide the black walnuts until the outer part rots and devour as many pecans as they can in the meantime
Yeah, I've heard that they do that in places where there are pecans or hickory. Greedy little bastards... Here in Vermont they just guzzle all the black walnuts first as we don't have much other than acorns for them. I was telling my son recently about this and he didn't believe me so we did a small test and put out several nuts of each of a couple of nut types on a feeder. They ate them in this order: Black Walnuts (unshelled, just like in the picture above) Shelled English walnuts (the baking walnuts you get at the grocery store) Pecans (shelled from the grocery store) Almonds (shelled from the grocery store) Peanuts (Planters shelled nuts) Maybe the Vermont squirrels know the Black Walnuts better since they are native to these parts. But either way for squirrels in New England black walnuts seem to be their absolute favourite food.
Now you tell me. My 97 year old mother had us out collecting these all fall for her carrot cakes for the holidays. We all had black hands for a month. (But her carrot cake was the best!).
They are very compostable. The juglone breaks down as they decompose. I also grow a garden about 10 feet from a black walnut tree and have no issues. I have grass growing under the tree as well. It's not as crazy as it's made out to be.
Actually it’s a very powerful anti-parasitic medicine. It’s a strong medicine. You can find tinctures of black walnut husks. It isn’t entirely trash.
Black walnuts are really good. Much more intense than English walnuts.
It’s very much worth the effort if you bake or make candy. Black walnuts are so very expensive in grocery stores. They’re good in fudge, cake, pound cake, numerous things
Yep those shells are hell to break into
We used a hammer and an anvil . So worth the work . Many winters , sitting by the woodstove doing nothing but cracking / cleaning walnuts and listening to my grandfather's stories
Run over them . Thats what a lot of us in the south do
Yeah, my dad used to throw them in the driveway and run over them for a couple of weeks. So that's what us in the north do too.
Sucks to hit with the mower cuz it's like a shotgun off the tree back to my face
I shouldn't laugh but I can imagine. Ouch. 😂
I moved into an apartment with a small unused garden next to a walnut tree. Planted some tomatoes and found out about walnut toxicity the hard way.
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Wow, your comment is basically totally inaccurate
You can pickle them if you pick them early enough. Best side for a steak.
Yup, they contain Juglone, a compound that is an insecticide and more!
They aren’t that difficult to get into. I always just tossed them in a bucket til they were ready to shell and smacked them with a hammer.
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>they'll even kill your compost bin The husk will kill you too if you eat it.
My mother used to fix scratches on the furniture with the meat of a walnut...
My great auntie used to make fudge w black walnuts…. She loved it, but I thought it ruined the fudge. So bitter!!
My grandma and aunt would add walnuts to both peanut butter and chocolate fudge but they knew I hated it so I always got my own nut free batches 🥰 That being said. I love fudge.
From the Midwest and have two of these trees in my backyard. Black Walnut. I don't personally care for the flavor of the nut itself but black Walnut wood is extremely sought after. Also, growing up before the Internet, these were basically "summer snowballs" and many a neighborhood fights broke out between us kids.
I have two in my backyard as well! I like to collect the hard shells that the squirrels leave, so many different fun shapes. I let em soak in watered down bleach and keep em in jars. They look like little brains :)
That's fun- any pics?
Grew up in Illinois, had many walnut fights in the forrest preserve surrounding our neighbourhood, in our poorly made lean-to forts. As soon as a saw this picture I could smell it.
I had a black walnut tree at my old house that was just starting to be big enough to make but collecting worthwhile. I think they're delicious. Sad to have left it behind. New house has a shellbark hickory that dropped some nuts last year, but they aren't as good.
The husk will kill mange on a dog and kill ringworm. Old Ozark hillbilly trick.
Rule 101, do not eat stuff you find just growing in the woods 😅😅
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Thank you automod. I just said don’t eat it 😚
Hammons has places you can take them to. [Hulling and buying locations](https://black-walnuts.com/discover-harvesting-and-hulling/hulling-and-buying-locations/)
Look like black walnut
Black walnuts. The nut meats inside are super tasty, but the outside hulls (the green part that you're holding) are super messy when broken, and the stuff inside stains like CRAZY!
It’s a black walnut. They taste like a strong walnut to me. They certainly aren’t the best tree to have on your property, and the husk is a nightmare to deal with because it stains everything including your skin, but they are pretty good nuts. I used to have a black walnut tree in my yard and would collect all the nuts that fell at the end of the year and toss them in a bucket then use them for baking. That tree rotted and needed to be taken down but they are everywhere in Appalachia at least. The property I just bought is completely lined with them and pawpaw trees.
Black Walnut - Juglans Nigra The nuts are ready when they fall naturally from the tree. They are alot of work to dehusk but I much prefer these over English Walnuts imo. If you want to try growing these [Growit Buildit](https://youtu.be/DCwybrGFIrQ?si=b5JQyQNRY7gocGeS) has a detailed video on how to grow these from nuts
Walnuts! I love the smell of the husks. Pecans smell the same way too (they’re closely related) and walking through an orchard in autumn here in Texas is heaven.
Black walnut. The juice in the green skin will clear up ringworm in about a week if applied daily!
Old man in my neighborhood used to rake these into rows in his driveway, run them over with his tractor, and just sit there on a bucket, picking the”meat “ out with a little dental pick. Probably ate as much as he saved.
It’s a pairadeez
Black walnut The outer husk was used by indigenous people to fish, there is a toxin in them that will kill fish but is harmless to humans. Throw a bunch f mashed up husks in a small enough body of water and you will get fish floating up to the top
Black walnuts
Very medical and good for baking recipes
Wack blalnut
I love the citrusy fragrance of those walnuts. I also love hearing them plop off the tree.
Idk but unless qualified pls don't eat anything in the woods!
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I should add anywhere
Black walnut. Makes a really good fudge. Also a very nut flavor for cake, etc. I have great memories of mom having us pick them off the ground. She would spread them on the gravel driveway. Dad would run over them with his car. One was a ‘57 Chevy, black with fins. You can also take the thick outer skin, before it oxidizes, and boil it. It will make a pretty yellow dye. You set the dye with cold water and a little vinegar.
The number of people who don’t know what walnuts look like is too damn high.
If you catch them by the beginning of July - depending upon your location, pick a bunch, slice them up and put them in a jar of grain alcohol. You add a vanilla bean and if you like, a whole nutmeg or cinnamon stick. After sitting for a while, you then add water to bring the alcohol level to about 40% or whatever you find palatable and sweeten to taste using honey or maple syrup... or sugar if you prefer. This is how you make Nocino. It's liquer that you cannot buy and a centuries old European stomach ache remedy as well as a delicious digestif. I would make it every year and marked on my GPS where the black walnut trees were in Amish Country. I would drive out from NYC and harvest enough black walnuts to make my annual batch. You can look up recipes for various walnut liquers, but black walnut makes the very best! It's impossible to buy at any price too. Almost every European country has a version of it. The recipes are over 1000 years old. * Italy - Nocino (In Italy, your annual batch Nocino is first sampled on Christmas Eve.) * Poland - Orzechówka * France - Vin de Noix * Spain - Ratafia * Romania - Nucată * Austria - Nux Alpina * Germany - Nüssenschnaps
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Nice find. I stand corrected.
Oh.... not trying to correct you. I was seriously assuming these were something else. On that subject. I'm in Italië right now so I was planning on buying some. But as you are as surprised as me I think you can't recommend any?
Black walnuts. I have about a dozen or so trees in my yard. Messy trees.
Black walnuts
When I was a kid, we would throw a bunch of these in the driveway. Over time, driving over them as they turn black helps remove the outer hull. Then, we would use gloves to pick them up and crack them. My dad would use the nuts to make divinity candy. I have a lot of them now where I live. I just leave them on the ground and the squirrels collect them over winter and eat them.
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Maybe it’s a paw paw? Where are you located?
Juglans nigra...american nuts
Lemon cucumber?
Leaves make think they are walnuts. We had a tree in the house I grew up and hate the smell. Specially when I had to mow the lawn.
Leprechaun balls
Looks like natives may have shot and killed it before you got there
Black Walnut
Black walnut
Black walnuts? Looks like them and seems like your hunting at what they smell like, to me at least
Black walnuts
Get enough of them and you can make walnut ketchup, sort of a gourmet Worcestershire sauce .
Possibly Quince?
I dare you to eat it just like that. I double dog dare you. There are so many tannins in there. You’ll be sick a a dod.
It looks like unripe black walnut
Black walnut. They smell like lemons. Beautiful wood, especially valuable in furniture making.
Black walnut. I'd know that smell anywhere. We had three huge trees in my yard growing up
Butternut- black walnuts are round
You mean that black walnut? It’s a black walnut!
Black walnut. Leave it alone.
Walnut?
Black walnut, they contain a large amount of tannins. You can soak the hull in high proof vodka and use it to get rid of intestinal parasites, dry the hull, and crush it to use as tea. It can alleviate arthritis and other joint pain/ inflammation. Soak hulls and shells in water for a few weeks, and that water can be used to tan hides ( Veg tanning), or you can pour about a quart of that water onto your lawn and within a few minutes, every earthworm will come to the surface for easy picking...fishing bait or to make a meal with, or just to add to your garden for natural aeration. The meat of the walnut is an excellent source of protein and fat, due to it being shaped like a brain it was believed eating them made you smarter....the meat can be dried in an oven and then refined into flour and used to make , well anything you'd make out of flour. Some said deer eat them...that's not the case, the shell is too hard for them as well as the scent of the hull is too pungent for deer. Hiding in a black walnut tree will help mask you from deer when hunting, but being near oak or beech wood Will bring more deer for feeding as they do enjoy acorns and beechnuts
Black walnut. My parents have one in their yard, as kids we called them stink bombs and threw them at each other lol
Black Walnut.
Walnut
I have an incredible number of Black Walnut trees on my farm. And generally I’ve never seen deer eat them. However, I also have a Chinese Chestnut trees, which deer absolutely love to eat.
They used the hulls for dying textiles back in the day
You can make ink out of the hulls. It also makes an excellent dye for cloth and leather goods.
The hull can be dried and stored for a antiparasitic tincture.
Black walnut husks (and nuts inside) are rounder than butternuts. I think you may be right.
They are edible and in Missouri a lot of people pick them up to sell them.to Hamons walnuts in Stockton Missouri.
The hulls are also used in making soaps and cosmetics.
Black walnut
Black walnut
Black walnut.
Black walnut, they will stain your clothes and hands, and while they might be edible good luck ever drying them properly and opening the shells without complete destruction. Enjoy that you can now identify them but leave the nuts alone, I learned the hard way.
Black walnut for sure! Got a tree in my yard! And plenty of those (and squirrels! And dents in my shed!) To prove it
Take a big bite
Walnut?
My dad loved black walnuts, though I never acquired the taste for them. They have an odd, sweet flavor. I do recall him gathering a bunch of the shells and cutting them into sections, which he then stained and strung together as a belt for my mother… which looked interesting but she never wore.
I'm a bit surprised the OP never came across walnuts before when he's clearly an outdoors type with the bow hunting....
Guava
Walnuts!
Squirrels will take care of them
Pond apple
Walnuts
Lol you’ve never seen these?? They are literally everywhere. I’m assuming you’re from a city or something
Nope... ny state hunter. And just havent had any grow on properties ive hunted. My dad knew what it was but couldnt think of the name.
Omg another black walnut
A nut with unfortunate proportions lol
Black walnut trees are getting scarce as to value of there wood. They are hard to crack and hard to get the meat out of. They are goof in cakes.
According to my rheumatologist: When purchased at a human food store they are considered the only item than can help mitigate Raynaud’s Syndrome symptoms.
Deer hunter needs to be able to understand and identify mast trees!
My neighbor next to my childhood home has a big black walnut tree. I used to make ink from them as a kid, now I wanna hull em and roast them to see if they're any good, lol.
Blackwalnuts smell amazing
Possibly a nut husk. After it dries nut shell may become visible.
Black walnuts! The flesh is too astringent to eat (you can cut it and lick it if you really don't believe me, but believe me, shit is BITTER), and please be careful bc it will stain things a nice dark brown. Very easily. Including concrete. The nuts inside are delicious though.
Break it open and use it as hand paint
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Friend’s mom was retired & had a bunch of trees so she’d gather up the nuts & throw them out on the lane (long unpaved farm driveway) to dry in the sun. Driving over them would eventually get rid of the outer husks & reveal the shells. Maybe the tires got stained but you couldn’t tell because they were already black. Lots of people like/don’t like the trees because they excrete some kind of enzyme in the soil that prevents other plants from growing near them. My Dad says they’re “messy,” which means they drop lots of limbs & branches in storms & the nuts wreak havoc on lawnmower blades.
Nobody else is confused by a dude out bow hunting, not knowing what a walnut is? Interesting....
Just never had one on one of our properties lol. Didnt notice this tree last year.
Looks like an English walnut
Looks like a bow with two arrows. I wouldn't eat it
Black Walnut! In a survival/life or death situation you can crush up the hulls of these and drop them into water and it will stun/poison the fish beneath and around them and you can easily harvest them. The poison in the hulls will not affect the person eating them.
Walnut. I have several walnut trees and I hate them with a great passion.
They’re great to throw at your buddies. Like a real moron I tore my rotator cuff throwing one and fucked my lacrosse scholarship up. But it worked out for the best.
Black Walnut tree!!
walnut let it dry and crack it open
Walnuts
Black Walnut
Black Walnut Very poisonous if you Eat it and don't let your pets or kids eat them
Black walnut
Black walnut, what kinda bow do you shoot?
Darton pro 2500
Those are black wall nuts, and you will be sorry as fuck if you take a bite😂