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Old 13-07-2010, 12:00 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , JonC
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http://tinypic.com/m/b3nz2t/4

Can anyone Id this tree please?
The fruits tasted really bitter!!


It's a Carya. I'd guess at pignut (Carya glabra), but there is a
bitternut (Carya cordiformis) among the other species.


Why not a walnut (Juglans regia)? What have I missed?

You shouldn't really be tasting the fruits if you don't know what it is.


No, tasting is OK. There are no temperate plants that I know of
that are so poisonous that merely tasting them is dangerous.
The worst that I can think of are the Toxicondendron species.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.