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Juglandaceae
Juglans regia
Juglans regia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fagales
Family: Juglandaceae
A. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of Flowering plants whose Seed typically has two embryonic leaves or Cotyledons There The Fagales are an order of Flowering plants including some of the best known Trees The order name is derived from Genus Fagus Richard ex Kunth
Genera

Alfaroa
Carya (hickory and pecan)
Cyclocarya (wheel wingnut)
Engelhardia (cheo)
Juglans (walnut)
Oreomunnea
Platycarya
Pterocarya (wingnut)

The Juglandaceae, also known as the Walnut Family, is a family of trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Carl Sigismund Kunth ( June 18, 1788 — March 22, 1850; also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth UserPolbot. --> Alfaroa is a genus of Plant in family Juglandaceae. Trees in the genus Carya (from Ancient Greek κάρυον " Nut " are commonly known as Hickory. Cyclocarya is a Genus of Flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, comprising a single species Cyclocarya paliurus Engelhardia is a Genus of seven species of Trees in the family Juglandaceae, native to southeast Asia from northern India Walnuts (genus Juglans) are Plants in the family Juglandaceae. UserPolbot. --> Oreomunnea is a genus of two species of Flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae Platycarya is a Genus of Flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, usually treated as comprising a single species Platycarya The wingnuts are Plants in the genus Pterocarya (from Ancient Greek pteron, "wing" + karyon, " Nut " A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or Various members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia. The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World, consisting of the Continents of North America and South America For the superstate in George Orwell 's novel see Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Nut of Juglans regia
Nut of Juglans regia

Members of the walnut family have large aromatic leaves, that are usually alternate, but opposite in Alfaroa, Oreomunnia. The leaves are pinnately compound, or ternate, and usually 20-100 cm long. In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis.

The trees are wind-pollinated, the flowers usually arranged in catkins, and the fruit is a true botanical nut. A catkin or ament is a slim cylindrical flower cluster with inconspicuous or no petals usually Wind - pollinated ( anemophilous) but sometimes The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context and the term is not synonymous in Food preparation and Biology. Nut is a general term for the large dry oily Seeds or Fruit of some Plants.

Foliage and seed catkin of Platycarya strobilacea
Foliage and seed catkin of Platycarya strobilacea

There are eight genera in the family, including the commercially important nut-producing trees walnut (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), and hickory (Carya). Nut is a general term for the large dry oily Seeds or Fruit of some Plants. Walnuts (genus Juglans) are Plants in the family Juglandaceae. The Pecan ( Carya illinoinensis, commonly misspelled illinoensis) is a species of Hickory, native to south-central North America Trees in the genus Carya (from Ancient Greek κάρυον " Nut " are commonly known as Hickory. The Persian walnut, Juglans regia, is one of the major nut crops of the world. Juglans regia (the Common walnut, Persian walnut, or English walnut) is the original Walnut tree of the Old World Walnut and hickory are also valuable timber trees.


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