Archaeologists have found butternuts, a white walnut considered a delicacy by the Vikings, buried there.
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Walnut Lake Township was organized in 1861, and named after a former lake where white walnut trees grew.
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"Cryptocarya obovata ", known as the pepperberry or white walnut reaches a height of 40 metres and a trunk diameter of 90 cm.
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If there was any doubt that Vikings traveled to these southern coasts, it was dispelled when archaeologists found butternuts, a white walnut, buried in the ruins here.
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Butternut or white walnut trees, which produce a beautiful wood favored by carvers and cabinetmakers, have nearly been wiped out in the Southeast by butternut canker, a fungus whose country of origin is unknown.
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Oikos also sells the following varieties of walnuts : Juglans cinerea, the butternut or white walnut; J . mycrocarpa, which is a smaller, 30-foot shrubby tree, and the buartnut, which is a cross between the butternut and the Japanese walnut or heartnut.