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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?

Possibly my lack of familiarity with walnuts.

But I saw the fruits as ovoid, whilst a walnut has, I believe, a
spherical fruit.

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.

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Stewart Robert Hinsley