Common name: Manchurian walnut

Scientific name: Juglans mandshurica

Chinese name: 核桃楸、胡桃楸、东北核桃、楸子核桃、山核桃

Introduction:

Juglans mandshurica is large park tree with a round crown, up to 25 m tall and broad, or sometimes shrubs. It has imparipinnate leaves of 40-90 cm in length and is composed of (7 or) 9 to 19 elliptic to long elliptic or ovate-elliptic to long elliptic-lanceolate leaflets with fine, irregular serration, 6-17 × 2-7.5 cm in size. Nuts are globose, ovoid, or ellipsoid, 3-7.5 × 3-5 cm in size. Its husk is densely covered by glandular pubescent and is indehiscent. The shell is thick, rough, with 6-8 prominent ridges and deep pits and depressions. Though edible, the fruits are almost never grown for consumption. Roots very deeply and much prefers easily penetrable, open soil.