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 ...

John Enright of the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority shows off new buds on a hybrid tree grafted together in 2013. He's hoping the hybrid trees, a mix of walnut and butternut, will ...

Butternut canker can cause large dead spots on the tree and can even girdle the tree and kill it before it can produce fruit ... Butternut twigs are light tan in color and have an elongated terminal ...

Hathaway said that a very hard frost last May likely killed the buds and prevented the city's butternut trees from producing any nuts. "I'm hoping for next year," he said.

Conservationists in southwestern Ontario are working to fight back against an insidious, tree-killing canker that threatens butternut trees across Eastern Canada. Never an overly abundant species ...

Through most of its range butternut is not a common tree, and its frequency is declining. The ranges of butternut and black walnut (Juglans nigra) overlap, but butternut occurs farther north and ...

The butternut or white walnut ... The Forest Service tells us that it "initially infects trees through buds, leaf scars and possibly insect wounds and other openings in the bark, rapidly killing ...

Tree experts said the butternut has attracted goodwill from ... This spring, the tree sprouted an unusual number of flowering buds, more than in any season in recent memory, according to the ...

According to the U.S. Forest Service, the butternut canker fungus, first identified in 1967 in southwestern Wisconsin, initially infects trees through buds, the scars left on stems once leaves ...

A Capitol Campus tree-planting project that got off to a controversial start last spring appears to be headed for a sad ending. A butternut tree transplanted from the former homestead of Tumwater ...