Possibly the biggest English Walnut tree ever

I think that tree is a variety of black walnut based on the pointy leaves and furrowed bark. There are a few nuts up and left of you in the picture with you at the base of the tree.
 
It definitely doesn’t look like any of the black walnuts around here, which all look remarkably consistent and still seldom get as huge as this mother, but the leaves are pointier that what I’d expect. I’m gonna go back with a tape measure and talk to the owner. I’m keen to climb it just for fun.
 
We have black walnut trees that get that big and bigger up here. In Hillsboro where I grew up there is a tree with a black walnut trunk with English walnut grafted on at around 40 feet so the entire mid canopy is English walnut and then the original trunk continues so the upper canopy is black walnut. It is around 100 feet tall with a similar crown spread.
 
Good eye @RyanCafferky too many leaflets for English. Could also be a hybrid too. We have (had) a handful of large juglans mostly along an old road way from where the local general store was to the town. I suspect these are hybrids that were likely sold by the store (or raw nuts). Between leaves, bark, nuts and pith they don’t fit any single key I’ve found.
 
evo said:
Good eye @RyanCafferky too many leaflets for English. Could also be a hybrid too. We have (had) a handful of large juglans mostly along an old road way from where the local general store was to the town. I suspect these are hybrids that were likely sold by the store (or raw nuts). Between leaves, bark, nuts and pith they don’t fit any single key I’ve found.
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That had not occurred to me, but it is exactly the kind of place where an accidental walnut could have sprouted a unique one off hybrid. Its in a field where walnuts were grown commercially.
 
Matias said:
That had not occurred to me, but it is exactly the kind of place where an accidental walnut could have sprouted a unique one off hybrid. Its in a field where walnuts were grown commercially.
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Also the kind of place where an orchard would have been planting all types of hybrids to see how they did before deciding whether to graft them in greater numbers. On the property I just purchased there are some odd varieties of juglans with smaller than normal leaves. Also some odd varieties of chestnut that are hybrids of some kind. This place was a nursery back in the 70s.
 
Looked there, and they don’t even list the regia. I checked Monumental Trees list and it’s easily bigger than anything they list. I am gonna have to go back and get accurate measurements now, but I would put it over 10m in circumference.
 
Not really, paradox walnut isn’t economically viable for nuts, it can fetch a high timber price but it’s a specialty market.
We had a significant butternut fail and I called all the mills within 300 miles, none wanted it
 
Thats what I was told by my buddy who grew up in a almond and walnut farming family, so I assumed he meant the nuts.
 
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