Tree Identification Video - Butternut

[Pete Collin]

Hello All,

Last week I was working in a woods that had quite a few butternut - a tree that can be somewhat hard to find in NY.  Used that opportunity to make a video.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Nice video! Have you done similar videos with different species of trees?

[Pete Collin]

3 hours ago, Cabin Fever said:

Nice video! Have you done similar videos with different species of trees?

Yes, I have done a number of them over the years.  Just look through my YouTube channel that is under my name.

[mowin]

Very nice video. The only thing I'll challenge is the wildlife eating black walnuts.  Have a few clients with black walnut trees, and haven't seen a squirrel, deer or any other critter eating them in 25 yrs. 

[luberhill]

34 minutes ago, mowin said:

Very nice video. The only thing I'll challenge is the wildlife eating black walnuts.  Have a few clients with black walnut trees, and haven't seen a squirrel, deer or any other critter eating them in 25 yrs. 

man the squirrels here love them 

[mowin]

24 minutes ago, luberhill said:

man the squirrels here love them 

Not a tree rat, gray or red touches them. Interesting how areas are so different than others. 

[luberhill]

2 minutes ago, mowin said:

Not a tree rat, gray or red touches them. Interesting how areas are so different than others. 

Oops I thought we were talking about butternuts , my bad

[mowin]

8 minutes ago, luberhill said:

Oops I thought we were talking about butternuts , my bad

Haven't seen a butternut in my area. Realistically, I don't think I'd recognize a butternut if I didn't see this video.

All I can comment on is I haven't seen a red, gray squirrel, let alone deer, pay any attention to black walnuts. 

[Pete Collin]

The shot where I show a bunch of gnawed nut shells on the ground is a mixture of walnut and butternut. I have 2 walnuts growing in my yard that are volunteer trees. They are far enough away from any potential parent trees that I assume a squirrel buried the nuts there and forgot about them.   Could be a chipmunk, too. 

Edited July 26, 2021 by Pete Collin

[luberhill]

24 minutes ago, mowin said:

Haven't seen a butternut in my area. Realistically, I don't think I'd recognize a butternut if I didn't see this video.

All I can comment on is I haven't seen a red, gray squirrel, let alone deer, pay any attention to black walnuts. 

I see butternuts a lot in the fingerlakes area and see gray tree rats taking them and building stash’s 

[mowin]

9 hours ago, luberhill said:

I see butternuts a lot in the fingerlakes area and see gray tree rats taking them and building stash’s 

Interesting. Butternut must be more palatable. Do the tree rats in the finglakes eat the black walnuts? 

Never seen a butternut in my area, or if I did see one I definitely had no clue what it was, lol. 

 

[Arcade Hunter]

Great video.  Thanks for sharing

[Northcountryman]

11 hours ago, mowin said:

Haven't seen a butternut in my area. Realistically, I don't think I'd recognize a butternut if I didn't see this video.

All I can comment on is I haven't seen a red, gray squirrel, let alone deer, pay any attention to black walnuts. 

Theyll eat them- I feed the squirrels black walnut every day and they  gobble them right down, although I dont know if deer would eat them or not. I have read that they (the deer) will eat them , but dont prefer them. 

[Northcountryman]

 Another way to tell the difference is the aroma given off by the black walnuts branches and leaves (this only works when the trees are saplings or, relatively small so you can get to the branches!). It is much more pungent. I discovered this as a kid cuz my Gradnfather was a huge nut tree guy and had both species planted throughout his yard.  Great trees- theyre very dear to me; they remind me of him and and of my youth. 

[mowin]

1 hour ago, Northcountryman said:

Theyll eat them- I feed the squirrels black walnut every day and they  gobble them right down, although I dont know if deer would eat them or not. I have read that they (the deer) will eat them , but dont prefer them. 

Have a client who's yard is full of black walnut trees. In the 10 yrs I've been mowing his lawn, I've never seen a squirrel touch one. 

[Northcountryman]

I think they have to be already husked , but idk.  I buy them at the store and they seem to love them.

[dmandoes]

Grays and reds gobble them up on my place.  They'll husk them.  Tree rats store them in my barns and equipment. Haven't seen any deer ever eat them.  

[Culvercreek hunt club]

"white walnut". Great wood working wood. Not as hard or strong as It' cousin, black walnut, but butternut carves and shapes very well. 

[luberhill]

The Mennonites are buying all the black walnut here… 

[mowin]

7 hours ago, Northcountryman said:

I think they have to be already husked , but idk.  I buy them at the store and they seem to love them.

I husk them with the mower, lol. They sound like rocks. 

[Otto]

I enjoyed that video.  Thanks for posting it.

I made a butternut clock many years ago from lumber off our farm.  I still have a few pieces laying around somewhere.   

Windsor chair is beautiful!

[Lawdwaz]

9 hours ago, blackbeltbill said:

Great Video! I am always trying to learn more by sometimes taking a Tree Book with me when,I Hike and or Bushwack off Trail.

I like that thought Bill.  What book are you carrying?

[Lawdwaz]

17 minutes ago, blackbeltbill said:

Usually one of thêse two Field Guides Larry. 

Thanks TripleB......I just ordered the TONY off ebay, it should be here August 4.

[Pete Collin]

9 hours ago, Otto said:

I enjoyed that video.  Thanks for posting it.

I made a butternut clock many years ago from lumber off our farm.  I still have a few pieces laying around somewhere.   

Windsor chair is beautiful!

Nice clock!  I lost my dad this spring.  He made over 100 clocks in his shop.  I have 2 of them.

[SWEDE]

Butternut or white walnut have 9 to 11 sets of leaflets per leaf stem (petiole) Black has 16 sets. Much longer. Also black pith when you break branch open.