name: Butternut

flavor_db_name_variants: butternut

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Butternut

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name_scientific: Juglans cinerea

description: Juglans cinerea, commonly known as Butternut or White Walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada. Juglans cinerea is a deciduous tree growing to 20 metres (66 ft) tall, rarely 40 metres (130 ft). Butternut grows quickly, but is rather short-lived for a tree, rarely living longer than 75 years. It has a 40?80 cm stem diameter, with light gray bark. The leaves are pinnate, 40?70 cm long, with 11?17 leaflets, each leaflet 5?10 cm long and 3?5 cm broad. The whole leaf is downy-pubescent, and a somewhat brighter, yellower green than many other tree leaves. The fruit is a nut, produced in bunches of 2?6 together; the nut is oblong-ovoid, 3?6 cm long and 2?4 cm broad, surrounded by a green husk before maturity in mid autumn.

itis_id: 19250

wikipedia_id: Juglans_cinerea

picture_file_name: 320.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 194424

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:38:06.000Z

legacy_id: 347

food_group: Nuts

food_subgroup: Nuts

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:35.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:22.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 91214

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00316