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Juglans hindsii

Hinds' black walnut, northern California black walnut, northern California walnut
Habit Trees, 6-23 m. Bark light or medium gray, split into smooth or ± scaly plates.
Twigs

with distal edge of leaf scar shallowly to deeply notched, not bordered by well-defined band of pubescence;

pith light brown.
Leaves

22-45 cm;

petiole 3-8 cm.
Leaflets

13-21, narrowly triangular to lanceolate, symmetric or weakly falcate, (5.6-)7.3-13 × (1-)1.9-2.8 cm, margins serrate, apex acuminate;

surfaces abaxially glabrous or with sparse glands, sparse glands and few capitate-glandular hairs scattered along major veins, fasciculate hairs conspicuously tufted in axils of proximal veins, sometimes also on adjacent blade and edges of midrib, adaxially glabrous or with scattered scales, major veins glabrous or with sparse scattering of glands and few capitate-glandular hairs, without nonglandular hairs;

terminal leaflet well developed.
Fruits

1-2, globose, 3.5-5 cm;

nuts ovoid to ovoid-globose, 2.4-3.2 cm, smooth or nearly so or shallowly and indistinctly ridged or grooved.
Terminal

buds ellipsoid to oblong, flattened, 6-8 mm.
Staminate

catkins 6-15 cm;

stamens 20-40 per flower;

pollen sacs 1-1.4 mm.

Juglans hindsii
Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Along streams, sometimes on disturbed slopes
Elevation 0-300 m (0-1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Before 1850, Juglans hindsii was restricted to a few locations (J. R. Griffin and W. B. Critchfield 1972). It has been widely used as a rootstock for grafting J. regia and has been planted extensively in many parts of California for this purpose. It is now naturalized in many areas where it apparently did not occur before the introduction of commercial walnut growing. Possibly some of these naturalized populations are introgressed with J. nigra, since spontaneous hybridization between J. hindsii and J. nigra has been reported in areas where both species have been planted. These hybrids are difficult to distinguish from J. hindsii unless fruit are present. Currently most commercial walnut orchards use hybrid rootstocks, usually J. hindsii × J. regia (G. H. McGranahan and P. B. Catlin 1987).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Juglandaceae > Juglans
Sibling taxa
J. californica, J. cinerea, J. major, J. microcarpa, J. nigra
Synonyms J. californica var. hindsii
Name authority Jepson ex R. E. Smith: Univ. Calif. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 203: 27. (1909)
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