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Also known as Juglans regia

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
nut
Has part
seed
Image
Juglans regia 011.JPG
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Commons category
Walnuts
natural product of taxon
Juglans regia
color
brown
carbon footprint
3.0
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
water footprint
9280
name
tùkwim
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Encyclopedic overview

24 sections
Contents
  • Description
  • Chemistry
  • Species
  • Cultivation
  • History
  • Storage
  • Cultivars
  • Production
  • Nutrition
  • Health claims
  • Research
  • Allergic potential
  • Uses
  • Culinary
  • Inks and dyes
  • Cleaning
  • Cat litter
  • Folk medicine
  • In culture
  • Gallery
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Walnuts

thumb|upright|Inside of a walnut in growth thumb|upright|Three-segment walnut right|thumb|Walnut shell inside its green husk thumb|right|Artistic depiction of two walnuts (Adriaen Coorte, 1702) 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.

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