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bject: [NAFEX] Protecting the Butternut Tree

> <The GOOD news is that hybrids of
> butternut with Japanese walnut and heartnut can be used to replace pure
> butternut
> 
> Yes, but will the hybrids actually drop viable seeds and proceed to move out
> into the woods and replace the vanishing butternut species?  Donna
>
Yes, the seeds are viable.  I've got at least one seedling of 'Bountiful', 
which has been shown to be a hybrid - no idea what the pollen parent of that 
particular seedling is, and at 7-8  years, it hasn't made any nuts yet.

I've got a number of other seedlings, from nuts I got from Cliff England, and 
while some may have been from pure butternuts, there's a decent chance that 
at least some of them were from hybrids.

Lucky
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