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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Protecting the Butternut Tree
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:53:57 -0500

At 08:06 PM 6/30/2005, I wrote:
----- Original Message -----
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.

Will they move out into the woods? That I don't know. I'm planting them, but it'll remain to be seen if the local wildlife &/or spring freshets will distribute the seeds once they reach bearing age. Even before the appearance - or identification - of butternut blight disease, butternut was not an exceptionally common tree in this area of the country.
I have a friend who grew up here and has been a consulting forester for at least 20 years in this end of the state, and he indicated that he has never seen a butternut in the wild.

Lucky



  • Re: [NAFEX] Protecting the Butternut Tree, Lucky Pittman, 07/01/2005

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