After dehusking over a thousand black-walnuts, the question is likely
to surface. Why does
a black-walnut or any walnut species have a husk around the nut?
Hazelnuts have a leafy
type of structure over the nut.

Peaches and apricots and plums have fleshy outer covering of their nut
which has caught
the attention of animals to eat that flesh and spread the seed nut,
but not so in the case
of walnut husks.

So has anyone traced a Evolutionary Purpose for the species of nut
bearing trees as
to the purpose of the husk? Is it that the husk or some fleshy part is
required in the
growth of the final nut or hard portion of the nut? Is it that the
energy of growth of the
nut or hardshell is due to the growth of the husk, so that the husk is
integral in the
formation of the hardshell and nut inside? I think that is probably
the answer, since
the seed nut is isolated and nonconnected to the tree except for the
husk.

So, what is the answer? What is the purpose and function of the husk?

Archimedes Plutonium
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