{"id":874,"date":"2013-09-05T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=874"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"walnuts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/walnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walnut trees are not always easy to live with. For one thing, some species are homes for aphids that produce a mess on cars, tables, or anything else below. Walnut pollen can also provoke an allergic reaction and the trees can harm a garden by producing a chemical that inhibits the growth of other plants. And, of course, there are the husks that stain hands, clothing, and sidewalks. But, if you can put up with all that, the trees do produce tasty, edible nuts.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<ul class=\"childPages\"><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Black Walnut<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Juglans nigra<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-880 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black Walnut\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-881 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black Walnut\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JUNI2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nSettlers planted these walnut trees from nuts brought along on the wagon trains from their native central and eastern portions of the U.S. An open, rounded, full tree, it can reach a height of 150 feet. The wood is used in carpentry projects and is highly prized for its beauty. The tree is coarse branched, with bold pungent, pinnately compound foliage that turns a clear light yellow in fall.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/walnuts\/black-walnut\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">English Walnut<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Juglans regia<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0373-english-walnut-e1409174939846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1787 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0373-english-walnut-e1409174939846-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0373 english walnut\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0373-english-walnut-e1409174939846-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0373-english-walnut-e1409174939846-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0373-english-walnut-e1409174939846.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JURE2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-885 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JURE2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"English Walnut\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JURE2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/JURE2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>A deciduous tree thought to have originated near Persia, this tree is also known as the Persian Walnut. It bears small, female flowers that develop into the nuts and separate male flowers called \"catkins\" that produce the needed pollen. Leaves have 5 to 7 leaflets on one leaf stem. Tree is grown for its nuts and wood, and as an ornamental. There are many English Walnuts in the greater Portland area.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/walnuts\/english-walnut\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walnut trees are not always easy to live with. For one thing, some species are homes for aphids that produce a mess on cars, tables, or anything else below. Walnut pollen can also provoke an allergic reaction and the trees&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/walnuts\/english-walnut\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;English Walnut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-874","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}