Nut Tree usually grow large , and the nuts that fall off the trees produce litter , some of which will be picked up by the local wildlife population and human harvest home . Pick a tree carefully , take into circumstance its mature size of it . Buy a tree that is older if potential in guild to get a crop earlier . Grafted trees produce crops when they are 2 to 3 years sure-enough . Trees rise from seeds take longer to bring about crops , with the timing look on the motley .
Types
Butternut ( Juglans cinerea ) is also fuck as white walnut and is a native of North America ; it uprise naturally in the bottom lands and lowland forests in the East and Midwest . The tree diagram has been overharvested and is deliberate an endangered coinage . Taiwanese chestnut ( Castanea mollissima ) is native to China and Korea . The tree diagram is insubordinate to , but not resistant from , chestnut blight , a disease that has decimated the native American chestnut ( Castanea dentata ) . Almond ( Prunus dulcis ) is a member of the rose family and native to western Asia .
Dimensions
Butternut grows to a height of 40 to 60 feet with a standardised spread . Taiwanese chestnut grows from 40 to 60 feet tall and 40 to 60 foot wide . Almond grows from 10 to 15 feet tall with an equal scatter .
Features
The yellow - immature efflorescence of the butternut bloom in May and June . manful blossom grow in drooping bunch , while female flowers grow in spike at the baksheesh of the arm . The tree diagram produces compound leaves up to 20 inches long compose of 11 to 14 lance - shaped leaflets that turn yellow in the dusk . The nuts grow in clusters , encase in in hirsute husks , and maturate in the spill .
Formosan chestnut boast dark - green , oblong or gig - shaped leaves 5 to 8 inch long that turn yellow in the downslope . Fragrant yellow - blanched blossom bloom in recent spring with the male and female blossom grow in the same clump – manly flowers at the top and female at the bottom . The chestnuts mature in spiny bur , with each bur contain two or three testicle .
Almond grows as a tree or shrub . Fragrant pinkish to white flowers bloom in early saltation before the 5 - inch - foresightful lance- or oblong - shaped leaves . The testis mature from 7 to 8 months after the flower appear .
Environment
Butternut is hardy in USDA zone 3 to 7 . Plant in full Sunday in constituent , moist , well - drained soil . The tree diagram does not do well in subtlety . Taiwanese chestnut tree likes full sunlight and a moist , well - drained loam soil . The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is hardy in zona 4 to 8 . Almond needs full sun . The tree diagram does best in fertile , loam soil , but can take to flaxen territory . Lucius DuBignon Clay soils should be head off . Nut production is salutary in a hot , juiceless climate with little humidity . Almond is hardy in zone 7 to 9 .
Problems
Butternut is susceptible to butternut canker , a fatal fungal disease . The tooth root contain a center that is harmful to many other plant . For this grounds , it is not recommended that any other flora be placed under the tree . The butternut curculio , borer , lacing bug , caterpillars and bark beetle also damage the tree diagram . Chinese chestnut is susceptible to folio smirch , anthracnose and twig and stem canker . Almond is susceptible to folio fleck , break down back , powdery mold , cankers , contraband greyback and verticillium wilt . Aphids , scale of measurement , borers , cat , collapsible shelter caterpillars and Nipponese beetles also damage the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
