#black walnut

[verminous13personage]

Kevin but angst

Also first thing I painted with my new black walnut ink I made yayyy

[fattributes]

Black Walnut and Banana Pancakes

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 4 February 2026

Introduced to Europe in 1629, Juglans nigra (black walnut, American walnut) is native to eastern North America. It thrives in warmer regions with fertile soil and plenty of light. This is a vigorous, large, deciduous, broad-crowned tree that develops a dark, heavily ridged bark.

Jill Raggett

[gentlemensarts]

[elder-goblin]

made a couple of watercolor palette cases from black walnut. Yeah, black walnut is a thing with me. The sawdust is dangerous to breathe but it’s OH SO PRETTY with a linseed finish. hnggggg!!

Details inset on the front are laminated white oak and purpleheart. The palettes are from Micheals.

[vandaliatraveler]

A few October odds and ends from this past weekend. Top photos are of the historic covered bridge on Dents Run near Morgantown. The sheep grazing in the adjacent field gave me odd looks while I photographed the structure, as if they were thinking, "It's just a decrepit man path with a cover. Get over it." I did get over it, but not before admiring a honking trio of black walnut (Juglans nigra) fruits. Up the road at Mason-Dixon Historical Park, I visited the old stone marker on Brown's Hill denoting the farthest progression west by the astonomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon during their historic surveying trip in 1767. Their Mohawk guides stopped them on the high bluff overlooking Dunkard Creek, near the Catawba War Path, to avoid confrontation with hostile Shawnee and Delaware tribes. Keeping company with area's historical treasures: a few gorgeous New England asters (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) still in bloom; a curve-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia curvicauda); the long, wrinkled, red-purple seed pods of the honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos); and shrimp of the woods (Entoloma abortivum), also known as abortive entoloma, an edible fungus that parasitizes the honey mushroom to form an unappetizing-looking white blob (but which supposedly has the texture and flavor of shrimp). I'll pass on the shrimp blob.

[ahedderick]

Step one. Walnuts that have been run over in the lane have the yucky black/brown husk already knocked off. The husk can be used for dye or ink, but this time I'm just after nuts.

Step two; Nuts, a hammer, a large rock. I do this step outside to avoid having bits of shell all over my floor and avoid damaging my table. Then scoop the cracked nuts into a clean bowl and take them inside. Nearly half of these were dried up inside, because I waited until spring to do this instead of doing it (properly) in the fall. Still enough to be worthwhile, though.

Step three; time spent with a nutpick and family members.

Step four: my mother-in-law gave me a cake recipe from her mother years ago. It is very plain and good. Thank you, Cecelia (1899 - 1964). Black walnuts have a much stronger flavor and aroma than English walnuts, and this smells amazing.

[bi-accident]

Soda cracker pie - 1940