In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...

Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published ...

Douglass Jacobs, the Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology at Purdue University, with a butternut tree that has been infected with stem canker. Butternut is on the list of at-risk forest tree ...

A tree that has stood in Kinnelon for nearly 250 years was finally knocked down by strong storms this week. The iconic 80-foot-tall Butternut tree has stood in the town plaza once known as Mead Farm ...

Q: What happened to all the butternuts? I remember as a child that these trees were very common and my parents always harvested the nuts. Now, they are so scarce, and without the nuts, I am not sure ...