I am hoping you will be able to identify this tree between our home and our neighbor. Each year at this time the leaves fall and are replaced with the seed pods which are very dry and brittle ...

A: The walnut species has a chemical that slows down (retards) germination of seeds and causes growth problems in many other species of plants. The chemical is juglone.

Black walnut and butternut trees are widespread and abundant throughout eastern North America, and are easy to identify.

Here is what you need to know about collecting black walnuts for seeds and nuts. They look very different before they are unhusked.

Warmer, drier summers and extreme weather events considered possible as the climate changes would be especially troublesome -- possibly fatal -- for walnut trees, according to researchers.

Each fall, we get questions about the pretty tree with the pinkish flowers. However, these aren't flowers but rather highly decorative, papery salmon-pink seed pods.

Eating a handful of walnuts every day can 'reduce the risk of bowel cancer', according to new research. The edible seeds of walnut trees are said to provide 'long-term' health benefits, and can also ...

On July 10, California Governor Jerry Brown, America’s wannabe science president, signed a law declaring that the Golden State has four official nuts: the almond, walnut, pistachio, and pecan ...

Step two was building tree-planting robots. BioCarbon Engineering’s fleet of drones flies ten feet off the ground, gently firing seed pods into the earth at the rate of two per second.

The clusters of green balls on the crape myrtle trees now are seed pods, not unopened flower buds. A large number of seed pods in late summer indicates your trees bloomed well earlier.