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La Puce · 15-09-2006, 10:49 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

wrote:
Does any one know how to identify between
Juglans Regia, Buccaneer and Broadview
As I have a walnut tree approx 10 years old and 25ft hi with no nuts,
and a friend has one that is only about 20ft hi that was cropping
after 5 years. Mine seems to be more erect and my friends more
spreading.
Which makes me think its a different variety ??

I'm no expert - but I'm only an expert at beating the nuts down, drying
them and eating them, especially the later. Broadview and Bucaneer are
varieties of the juglans regia. Why do you think you might have either
a Buccaneer or a Broadview? My collins shows me two different fruit -
oval for the regia and round for the nigra species (no mention of the
cineara). Since you don't have fruits on yours, perhaps via the leaves
you'll be able to identify what you have and then the variety (but that
will be very difficult as there is so many).

If it can help, on the juglan regia the leaves are pinnate but with
7/9, but usually 7, eliptical leaflets. With the black walnut, juglans
nigra, there's 11/23 leaflets. That should be easy to determine.

Also you mention shape - the regia are more spreading and the nigra
more of an erect form - HTH