Walnut
Nut of any tree of the genus Juglans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about walnuts as food. For the genus, see Juglans. For walnut wood (timber), see Juglans § Wood. For other uses, see Walnut (disambiguation).
A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an involucre and thus not morphologically part of the carpel; this means it cannot be a drupe but is instead a drupe-like nut.
After full ripening, the shell is discarded, and the kernel is eaten. Nuts of the eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra) and butternuts (Juglans cinerea) are less commonly consumed.