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Juglandaceae
The Juglandaceae are a plant family known as the walnut family. They are trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia. The nine or ten genera in the family have a total of around 50 species, and include the commercially important nut-producing trees walnut (''Juglans''), pecan (''Carya illinoinensis''), and hickory (''Carya''). The Persian walnut, '' Juglans regia'', is one of the major nut crops of the world. Walnut, hickory, and gaulin are also valuable timber trees while pecan wood is also valued as cooking fuel. Description Members of the walnut family have large, aromatic leaves that are usually alternate, but opposite in '' Alfaroa'' and '' Oreomunnea''. The leaves are pinnately compound or ternate, and usually 20–100 cm long. The trees are wind-pollinated, and the flowers are usually arranged in catkins. The fruits of the Juglandaceae are often confused with drupes but are ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pecan
The pecan ( , , ; ''Carya illinoinensis'') is a species of hickory native to the Southern United States and northern Mexico in the region of the Mississippi River. The tree is cultivated for its seed primarily in the U.S. states of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, New Mexico, and Texas, and in Mexico. The seed is an edible nut used as a snack and in various recipes, such as Praline (nut confection), praline candy and pecan pie. The pecan is the state nut of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Texas, and Louisiana, and is also the state tree of Texas. Name derives from an Algonquian languages, Algonquian word variously referring to pecans, walnuts, and hickory nuts. There are many pronunciations, some regional and others not.See "wikt:pecan#Pronunciation, Pecan" at wikt:Main Page, Wiktionary. There is little agreement in the United States regarding the "correct" pronunciation, even regionally. In 1927, the National Pecan Growers Association acknowledged variant pronunciations whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juglans
Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus ''Juglans'', the type genus of the family (biology), family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts. All species are deciduous trees, tall, with pinnate leaves , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnut (plant), wingnuts (''Pterocarya''), but not the hickory, hickories (''Carya'') in the same family. The 21 species in the genus range across the north temperate Old World from southeast Europe east to Japan, and more widely in the New World from southeast Canada west to California and south to Argentina. Edible walnuts, which are consumed worldwide, are usually harvested from cultivated varieties of the species ''Juglans regia''. China produces half of the world total of walnuts. Etymology The common name ''walnut'' derives from Old English language, Old English ''wealhhnutu'', literally 'foreign nut' (from ''wealh'' 'foreign' + ''hnutu'' 'nut'), because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platycarya
''Platycarya'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.Flora of China''Platycarya''/ref> The genus was formerly treated as comprising a single species '' Platycarya strobilacea'', though the second living species '' Platycarya longzhouensis'' is now recognized. A number of fossil species have been discovered across the Northern Hemisphere dating from the Early Eocene, although they became confined to eastern Asia during the Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ... ice ages. *†'' Platycarya americana'' *†'' Platycarya bognorensis'' *†'' Platycarya castaneopsis'' *†'' Platycarya manchesterii'' *†'' Platycarya miocenica'' *†'' Platycarya pseudobrauni'' *†'' Platycarya richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platycaryeae
Platycaryeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, and comprising a single living genus ''Platycarya''. The tribe is now native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.Flora of China''Platycarya''/ref>Flora of China''Platycarya strobilacea''/ref> A series of fossil genera have been described from the Northern Hemisphere dating between the Early Eocene, and gradually becoming confined to East Asia during the Pleistocene ice ages. The fossil record is dominated by morphotaxa based on plant material, with isolated fruit, foliage, leaves, pollen, and woods in segregate mophogenera. Genera *''Platycarya ''Platycarya'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae native to eastern Asia in China, Korea, and Japan.Flora of China''Platycarya''/ref> The genus was formerly treated as comprising a single species '' Platycarya strobilacea ...'' *†'' Clarnoxylon'' (wood morphotaxon) *†'' Hooleya'' (fruit morphotaxon) *†'' Palaeoplatycarya'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fagales
The Fagales are an order of flowering plants in the rosid group of dicotyledons, including some of the best-known trees. Well-known members of Fagales include: beeches, chestnuts, oaks, walnut, pecan, hickory, birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams, she-oaks, and southern beeches. The order name is derived from genus ''Fagus'' (beeches). Systematics Fagales include the following seven families, according to the APG III system of classification: * Betulaceae – birch family ('' Alnus'', '' Betula'', ''Carpinus'', '' Corylus'', ''Ostrya'', and '' Ostryopsis'') *Casuarinaceae – she-oak family ('' Allocasuarina'', '' Casuarina'', ''Ceuthostoma'', and '' Gymnostoma'') *Fagaceae – beech family ('' Castanea'', '' Castanopsis'', '' Chrysolepis'', ''Fagus'', '' Lithocarpus'', '' Notholithocarpus'', ''Quercus'', and '' Trigonobalanus'') *Juglandaceae – walnut family (''Alfaroa'', '' Carya'', '' Cyclocarya'', '' Engelhardia'', ''Juglans'', '' Oreomunnea'', '' Platycarya'', '' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juglandoideae
Juglandoideae is a subfamily of the walnut family Juglandaceae. This clade was first described by Gen-ichi Koidzumi, Koidzumi in 1937 by the name "Drupoideae," based on the drupe-like fruits of ''Juglans'' and ''Carya''. This name was rejected because it was not based on the name of the type genus. Jean-François Leroy (botanist), Leroy (1955) and Hans Melchior, Melchior (1964) both published descriptions of the clade using the name "Jugandoideae," but both were deemed invalid due to technicalities. The first valid publication of the name was by Wayne Eyer Manning, Manning (1978). * Subfamily Juglandoideae ** Tribe Caryeae *** ''hickory, Carya'' – hickory and pecan *** ''Annamocarya'' *** ''Platycarya'' ** Tribe Juglandeae *** ''Cyclocarya'' – wheel wingnut *** ''Juglans'' – walnut *** ''Pterocarya'' – wingnut Manos and Stone (2001) proposed the following reorganization to reflect a more probable Phylogenetics, phylogenetic relationship that shows that ''Platycar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoipteleoideae
''Rhoiptelea'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae. It contains a single species, ''Rhoiptelea chiliantha'', commonly known as the horsetail tree. This genus was previously recognized in its own family, Rhoipteleaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 placed it in the Juglandaceae family. ''Rhoiptelea chiliantha'' is native to southwest China and north Vietnam and lives at the elevation of 700-1600m in mountainous areas. The trees are wind-pollinated, the flowers arranged in large sagged panicles usually 32 cm long like horse tails, and the fruit is a small botanical nut with rounded wings. The leaves are pinnately compound and papery. The trees are usually 17 m high and with 40 cm diameter. It is a protected species of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreomunnea
''Oreomunnea'' is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae, native to southern Mexico and Central America, where they occur in montane rainforest.Manning, W. E. (1979). The Classification within the Juglandaceae. ''Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard''. 65: 1058-1087.Germplasm Resources Information Network''Oreomunnea''/ref> They are large trees growing to 35 m tall, with pinnate leaves with four to eight leaflets; unlike most genera in the Juglandaceae, the leaves are arranged in opposite pairs. The fruit is a small nut about 1 cm diameter, with a three-lobed wing.Neotropical Herbarium Specimens''Oreomunnea mexicana'' specimen ;Species * '' Oreomunnea mexicana'' (Standl.) J.-F.Leroy * ''Oreomunnea pterocarpa ''Oreomunnea pterocarpa'', known locally as gavilán or gavilán blanco, is a species of '' Oreomunnea'' in the family Juglandaceae. It is found in Costa Rica, southeastern Mexico (Chiapas), and Panama ( Coclé Province).Americas Regional Worksho .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hickory
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes 19 species accepted by ''Plants of the World Online''. Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India (Assam), and twelve are native to North America. A number of hickory species are used for their edible nuts or for their wood. Etymology The name "hickory" derives from a Native American languages, Native American word in an Algonquian languages, Algonquian language (perhaps Powhatan language, Powhatan). It is a shortening of ''pockerchicory'', ''pocohicora'', or a similar word, which may be the name for the hickory tree's nut, or may be a plant milk, milky drink made from such nuts. The genus name ''Carya'' is , ''káryon'', meaning "nut (fruit), nut". Description Hickories are temperate forest, temperate to tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, subtropical forest trees with pinnation, pinnately compound leaves and large nut (fruit), nuts. Most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoiptelea
''Rhoiptelea'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae. It contains a single species, ''Rhoiptelea chiliantha'', commonly known as the horsetail tree. This genus was previously recognized in its own family, Rhoipteleaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 placed it in the Juglandaceae family. ''Rhoiptelea chiliantha'' is native to southwest China and north Vietnam and lives at the elevation of 700-1600m in mountainous areas. The trees are wind-pollinated, the flowers arranged in large sagged panicles usually 32 cm long like horse tails, and the fruit is a small botanical nut with rounded wings. The leaves are pinnately compound and papery. The trees are usually 17 m high and with 40 cm diameter. It is a protected species of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfaroa
''Alfaroa'' is a genus of evergreen trees in the Juglandaceae family of the Fagales, growing in montane and submontane tropical rain forests in Central America. The wood is characterized by solid pith, pink heartwood, and vessels with scalariform perforations, as well as simple perforations. Description The (usually pinnately compound) leaves are evergreen and lack stipule In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole (botany), petiole). They are primarily found among dicots and rare among monocots. Stipules are considered part ...s. They are alternate, rarely opposite. The plants are monoecious, the male flowers being in lateral panicles (several pairs of catkins on an inflorescence) and the female flowers born terminally either in a single spike or in a hermaphroditic panicle including several paired male catkins. Each flower has a wide bract, two bracteoles, and four sepals. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annamocarya
''Carya sinensis'' (syn. ''Annamocarya sinensis'') is a species of tree native to southwestern China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan) and northern Vietnam, in the hickory genus ''Carya''. It is sometimes called Chinese hickory or beaked hickory. It is closely related to '' Carya kweichowensis''. It is a medium-sized to large evergreen tree growing to tall. The leaves are long, and pinnate with 7–11 leaflets. The leaflets have an entire margin, which distinguishes it from other ''Carya'', where the leaflets have a serrated margin. The flowers are catkin A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind- pollinated ( anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in '' Salix''). It contains many, usually unisexual flowers, arra ...s produced in spring, with the male catkins in clusters of five to eight together (single in other ''Carya''). The fruit is a nut long and broad, with a prominent, acute beak at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
