Tree Id

[Philip Spangler]

Met a woman at the food store who was very nice, ended up getting to chatting about a tree in her yard. I have no idea if it is a native species or not. Here are a few pics, I am not real sure what it is as I have only seen pictures.

It appears to have leaflets with green "fruit" as she described, certainly not a paw paw maybe a persimmon?? I live in Morgantown WV if that helps narrow anything down.

Thanks all!

[smsmith]

I gotta go with Butternut, maybe walnut but the nut husks appear to be more elongated.

[dtabor]

Those nuts look like butternut to me.

[USFWC]

I believe they're right...butternut:

[charlescope]

Its butternut, once fairly common here in WV but is being killed by butternut canker.

[dprogers]

In these parts we have hicory trees that are referred to as butternut. It is my understanding that Jonny Reb used the nut for a dye that they dyed uniforms with. Is this in the hicory family?

[charlescope]

You might be thinking of bitternut hickory.

[dprogers]

You may be right. I will do a little homework.

[Forester]

I agree, that looks like butternut in the pics. Here is a link with a good description:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrol...heet.cfm?ID=31

Butternut, in the same family as walnut, may stain your hands when you handle the husk of the fruit. These were often used to make a yellow/orange/brown dye.

[smsmith]

I can certainly attest to the dye issue. I used the husks when I was a kid to dye my legholds and conibears. Worked great.