ANDEAN WALNUT, Juglans neotropica

This fast growing evergreen Juglans species is from the relative calm and frost free sub tropical Andes. The advantage of the Andean walnut is that it is a walnut that may fruit in parts or all of the subtropics where no other walnut will fruit; it fruits well; it is self fertile; it comes into bearing from seed within about five or six years; and it has large nuts that are moderately well filled. The biggest disadvantage is that the nut does not fall free of the husk and 'clings' to the nut. This means the almost tennis ball sized 'fruit'  (fleshy husk plus the 'nut' in the middle) have to be collected and piled up for the husk to rot off. The olivey green to brown fruits turn dark brown as the husk breaks down, and the fleshy part becomes black and soft and spongy. Once cleaned, the round golf-ball sized nuts can be dried. Their shell is very thick heavy, and they are not easy to open. Once open, the kernel is also difficult to remove from the shell. The kernel itself is blandly pleasant.

Tips on Andean Walnut ^BETA

We welcome your Tips on Andean Walnut. Share Your Tip.

Andean Walnut

-4C is definitely the limit. to -3 you lose tips, at -4 you lose limbs. they reshoot each year but get ugly and diseased. | Reville - Tabulam, NSW 18-Nov-2007

Andean Walnut

Mine took a year to put its roots down but has just started to take off | Darrin - Tallebudgera Valley, 4228 07-Nov-2008

Updated: 24th of January, 2008 at 8:43am © Disclaimer/Privacy/Copyright