Posted by nmm1 on July 13, 2010, 3:38 am
>> > Why not a walnut (Juglans regia)? What have I missed?
>> I'd have said walnut to. The outer green casing of the nut is incredibly
>> bitter & stains skin brown too.
>It is a walnut! The bitter taste and staining is due to the high
>levels of tannins and acids present in the outer casing. Provided the
>shell of the nut hasn't already started to form, those look just ready
>for pickling.
They have by now - it's too late for this year.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
Posted by Stewart Robert Hinsley on July 13, 2010, 4:47 am
writes
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>>>http://tinypic.com/m/b3nz2t/4
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>>>Can anyone Id this tree please?
>>>The fruits tasted really bitter!!
>>
>>It's a Carya. I'd guess at pignut (Carya glabra), but there is a
>>bitternut (Carya cordiformis) among the other species.
>Why not a walnut (Juglans regia)? What have I missed?
Possibly my lack of familiarity with walnuts.
But I saw the fruits as ovoid, whilst a walnut has, I believe, a
spherical fruit.
>>You shouldn't really be tasting the fruits if you don't know what it is.
>No, tasting is OK. There are no temperate plants that I know of
>that are so poisonous that merely tasting them is dangerous.
>The worst that I can think of are the Toxicondendron species.
>Regards,
>Nick Maclaren.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
Posted by nmm1 on July 13, 2010, 5:02 am
>>>>
>>>>http://tinypic.com/m/b3nz2t/4
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone Id this tree please?
>>>>The fruits tasted really bitter!!
>>>
>>>It's a Carya. I'd guess at pignut (Carya glabra), but there is a
>>>bitternut (Carya cordiformis) among the other species.
>>
>>Why not a walnut (Juglans regia)? What have I missed?
>Possibly my lack of familiarity with walnuts.
>But I saw the fruits as ovoid, whilst a walnut has, I believe, a
>spherical fruit.
The shape is normal for walnuts, because they start off pecan-shaped
and grow rounder as they mature.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
Posted by echinosum on July 13, 2010, 4:07 am
Stewart Robert Hinsley;893902 Wrote:
> It's a Carya. I'd guess at pignut
(Carya glabra), but there is a
> bitternut (Carya cordiformis) among the other
species.
The hickories (Carya), which include the Pecan, are remarkably similar
to the
walnuts. But here I think you are being too clever. The
hickories most likely
to be seen here have a much more pointed end to
the leaf than that, it changes
curvature at the tip. So I think it's a
walnut, which in general is a much more
likely find in this country.
The fruit is bitter because it isn't ripe, ready when gone hard like a
nut!
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echinosum
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>> I'd have said walnut to. The outer green casing of the nut is incredibly
>> bitter & stains skin brown too.
>It is a walnut! The bitter taste and staining is due to the high
>levels of tannins and acids present in the outer casing. Provided the
>shell of the nut hasn't already started to form, those look just ready
>for pickling.