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Juglans   Listen
noun
Juglans  n.  (Bot.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.





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... individuals must always fertilise each other. With monoecious plants, as pollen has to be carried from flower to flower, there will always be a good chance of its being carried from plant to plant. Delpino has also observed the curious fact that certain individuals of the monoecious walnut (Juglans regia) are proterandrous, and others proterogynous, and these will reciprocally fertilise each other. (10/30. 'Ult. Osservazioni' etc. part 2 fasc 2 page 337.) So it is with the common nut (Corylus avellana) (10/31. 'Nature' ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Juglans" :   English walnut, walnut tree, walnut family, butternut, Juglandaceae, family Juglandaceae, black walnut tree, black hickory, English walnut tree, genus Juglans, Circassian walnut, black walnut, butternut tree, dicot genus, Juglans nigra, Juglans cinerea


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