What is this?

[shoiji]

Am curious to know what type of tree this is. Does anyone know? Also what the large round green things are. They have a citrus scent.

[Contrary Housewife]

Persian lime? It's got some kind of infection, whatever it is.

[janal14]

Looks like black walnut to me. If it is, you'll find the harder walnut shell inside those large green fruits - but be careful - the 'fruit' part (not edible to my knowledge) will stain your hands brown/black.


I don't like black walnuts - find that they taste bitter/like burning, but some people eat them. Where I come from, so many people had these trees in their yards that didn't want them that lots of them would have "free to anyone who will collect them" signs in their yards.

[NikoSan999]

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Click on the redirect link...it will take you to the picture I found after googling Black Walnut.

Looks like Black Walnut according to this. Also explains what the couple dozen trees are next to the business that we've been wondering about for a long time.

[Ceashels]

i have something similar as well and if it is a black walnut tree... I'm gonna be happy!

[shoiji]

Thanks. Now I know what it is. There is a tree in the back of my place. The frugal me wants to harvest. Really doubt I will harvest any.

[Josephhgoins]

seriously not worth the effort of harvesting IMO.

The outer shell will stain your hands and they will stay a nasty black/green for a few weeks. after you get the outer shell off you then have to deal with what you know as the walnut shell.

I have a couple of them on propperty that I own and I gladly let the squirrels have them.

[MissSeetonFan]

Yep. Black walnut. There is a way of storing them to help get rid of the bitterness. They need to age a little bit after having the husk removed - the green part that turns black. I looked up some websites and they describe methods of doing it. Just googled it. Black walnut bitterness, or black walnut storage.

I grew up with eating walnuts all the time and never had a real problem with bitterness. Maybe because my mom already knew the secret to doing it.

The reason the husk turns things black is that it has tannin in it just like tea does. There are ways to get it off without staining everything too. Look it up.

[Nishu]

Black walnuts are awesome! They have such great flavor compared to the ones you buy in the store.

The stain is actually really useful. My mom turned the hulls into a stain for some of our furniture!

if you want to harvest them, wait until they have all fallen off the tree and then collect them in a big bucket. (I wouldn't do this when they're still green, I'd let them sit till the hull softens up and darkens a little.) We have long gravel driveways at home, and we would take our walnuts and throw them into the driveway. After a little while of having the cars drive over them and the rain washing them off, they'll be completely hulled. Just gather them up out of the driveway when they're ready. We did this every single year. You should not get your hands stained at all and they've never tasted bitter to me at all. (I've bought black walnuts from the grocery store and they were bitter, but not the ones we got from home.)

Now, it is a bit of work to crack them open and pull the nuts out, but no more work than in-shell kind you get at Christmas. And the flavor is amazing.

[oheoh's momma]

Nishu we used to run them over to get them out of there shell. They are so delicious and not bitter at all. You have gold mine there . They are 8.99 a lb here and sometimes more.

[zakity]

I have an english walnut tree on the property. Most of the time, we let the squirrels have them. This year, I am planning on gathering up as many as we can get. A friend and I are going to swap. She can grow basil and I can't (it just won't grow for me). She makes pesto and walnuts are expensive. Sounds like a lovely trade to me!

[Nana2two]

If you have enough it will be worth the hassle of soaking and that it takes to clean them.For the most part the animals around here. Just be careful the green part is very toxic and can make you sick.

[Trishagirl]

My neighbor has a black walnut tree in his yard he doesn't use them I should take his people pay money for hulled ones but they are a mess to hull!

[bonnotsm9]

In our part of the country in the fall some companies will pay by the pound for unshelled black walnuts. People who have a lot of them on their property will gather them up and "cash" them in. We have a tree in our yard, but it doesn't produce enough to justify driving in to sell them. If we had several mature trees, it probably would.

[marlas1too]

a couple of things -yes they are black walnut-2 they need to be set aside to dry after the hulls are taken off- 3 here in wv.we just pile them in the driveway and roll over them till all the hulls are broke off the nuts then with rubber gloves we pick the nuts from the hulls to be dried-after they have dried about 60 days we take a hammer and a solid stone-(i have an anvil)to break the nut and pick the meat out-4 did you know the native American Indian used the green hull to boil to get a die from it -yellow----hugs