Nature - Fruits & Nuts

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The fruit of the oak, a smooth oval nut in a rough cuplike base.

Is the nut of the oaks.

Usually contains a single seed.

Take between 6 and 24 months to mature.

Eaten by birds, such as jays, pigeons, some ducks & woodpeckers.

Large mammals such as pigs, bears, and deer will also eat lots.

Are also rich in nutrients.

Contain bitter tannin.

An eastern North American tree (Juglans nigra) having dark brown wood and a deeply furrowed nut enclosed in a globose aromatic husk.

Nutmeat of the eastern black walnut is less commercially available.

Are rounded, single-seeded stone fruits.

During the ripening process, the husk will become brittle and the shell hard.

Shell encloses the kernel or meat, which is usually made up of two halves separated by a partition.

Native to eastern North America.

Is of high flavor, but due to its hard shell      and poor hulling characteristics it is not grown commercially for nut production.

Are a nutrient-dense food.

Husks of the black walnut Juglans nigra are used to make an ink for writing and drawing.

An North American walnut tree that bears oblong sticky fruits. Its light-colored, soft timber is useful primarily for making furniture and cabinetry.

Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut.

Native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.

Is a slow-growing species, and rarely lives longer than 75 years.

Grows best on stream banks and on well-drained soils.

Butternut does not survive under shade from above.

Most serious disease the causal organism of this disease is a fungus.

Completely free-standing trees seem better able to withstand the fungus.

Seed-bearing age begins at about 20 years and is optimum from age 30 to 60 years.

Good crops can be expected every 2 to 3 years.

White walnut is more valued for its nuts than its lumber.

Nuts are eaten by humans and animals.

Nuts are usually used in baking and making candies, having an oily texture and pleasant flavor.

Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated.

United States is the world's largest exporter of walnuts.

Are the most commonly consumed.

Native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia.

In the fourth century BC, Alexander the Great introduced this nut.

Grow best in rich, deep soil with full sun and long summers.

Heartwood is a heavy, hard, open-grained hardwood.

A chiefly North American tree of the walnut family that yields useful timber and typically bears edible nuts.

Shagbark hickory, is a common hickory in the Eastern United States and southeast Canada.

They have shaggy bark unlike young specimens that have smooth bark.

Edible with an excellent flavor and has a very sweet taste.

Popular food among people and squirrels alike.

Are unsuitable to commercial or orchard production.

Can grow to enormous sizes but are unreliable bearers

Begins producing seeds at about 10 years of age but large quantities are not produced until 40 years.

Were a food source for Native Americans.

Hickory wood is used for smoking meat and for making the bows of Native Americans of the northern area.

Lumber is heavy, hard, and tough.

A small, red, acid berry used in cooking.

Are low, creeping shrubs or vines.

Fruit is a berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant.

Are processed into products such as juice,sauce, jam, and sweetened dried cranberries.

Native Americans used cranberries in a variety of foods, especially for pemmican, wound medicine, and dye.

Are harvested in the fall when the fruit takes on its distinctive deep red color.

Have moderate levels of vitamin C and dietary fibre.

An edible soft fruit related to the blackberry, consisting of a cluster of reddish-pink drupelets.

Edible fruit.

Important commercial fruit crop.

Thrive in well-drained soil .

It is easy to grow and has a tendency to spread unless pruned.

Increases the proportion of dietary fibre.

A rich source of vitamin C.

A sweet soft red fruit with a seed-studded surface.

Is consumed in large quantities.

Garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s.

Strawberry fruit was mentioned in ancient Roman literature.

Vary widely in size, color, flavor, shape,      degree of fertility, season of ripening, liability to disease and constitution of plant.

An edible soft fruit, consisting of a cluster of soft purple-black drupelets.

Is an edible fruit.

Leaves are food for certain caterpillars.

Grow wild throughout most of Europe.

Harvesting the berries is a popular pastime.

Significant contents of dietary fiber, vitamin C, and vitamin K.

Contain numerous large seeds that are not always preferred by consumers.

Is popular for use in desserts, jams, seedless jelly, and wine.

A hardy dwarf shrub of the heath family, with small, whitish drooping flowers and dark blue edible berries.

Are native to North America.

State of Maine produces 25% of all blueberries in North America.

The largest fruit crop produced in Canada.

Harvest starts as early as May and usually ends in late summer.

Climate-controlled storage allows growers to preserve picked blueberries.

Blueberries were traditionally hand-picked,modern farmers use machine harvesters that shake the fruit off the      bush.

Moderate levels of the essential dietary      mineral manganese, vitamin C, vitamin K and dietary fiber.

A small deciduous tree with broad leaves, native to East Asia and long cultivated elsewhere.

Comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees.

Ripe fruit is edible and is widely used in      pies, tarts, wines, cordials, and tisanes.

Fruit and leaves are sold in various forms as nutritional supplements.

Can be grown from seed.

Some North American cities have banned the planting of mulberries because of the large amounts of pollen they produce.

Mulberry leaves are ecologically important as the sole food source of the silkworm.