Landscape Plants

Some 15 species of deciduous, monecious trees, rarely shrubs; branches have chambered pith.  Leaves alternate, compound (odd-pinnate), leaflets serrate or entire, aromatic.  Male flowers in axillary, long, pendulous, many flowered catkins and female flowers in few flowered, terminal spikes.  Fruit (nut) is a drupe, in an indehiscent, thick pericarp; the inner shell is hard and furrowed, the seed is furrowed, edible.  Native to North and South America, southeaster Europe, Asia.
Juglans: from the Latin Jovi glans, from jovis, of Jupiter, and glans, acorn or nut.