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Juglans regia L.

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Juglans regia L., Sp. Pl. 997 (1753)
Juglans regia L.

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Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
997
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Juglans regia L.
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Juglans regia

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regia

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Juglans regia L.

Large tree to over 20 m high, with broad spreading crown. Shoots glabrous, stout, dark, with prominent, Y-shaped lf scars; buds grey, ± finely puberulent. Lvs to c. 55 cm long; petiole and rachis to c. 30 cm long on adult branches. Leaflets 5-9, densely glandular-puberulent when young, becoming glabrous except for axillary hair tufts on undersurface, entire; base cuneate to rounded; apex rounded to acute or cuspidate; lowest pair of leaflets much smaller; terminal leaflet largest. Lamina of terminal leaflet mostly 10-20 × 5-11 cm (sometimes larger on strong vegetative shoots), broad-elliptic or elliptic-obovate. ♂ catkins 5-11 cm long, puberulent. ♀ fls in clusters of 1-3, sessile or subsessile, densely glandular-puberulent; stigmas to 3 mm long, pale green. Fr. 3.5-5 cm long, subglobose, glabrous but gland-dotted, green, not beaked. Shell thick or thin, rugose; sutures thick and easily dividing in 1/2 at maturity. Seed very convoluted.

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Cultivated
New Zealand
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Juglans regia L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Juglans regia L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Juglans regia L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Juglans regia L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
1 June 2021
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