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Juglans regia L. Juglandaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

Synonyms

Juglans regia var. chinensis D. DC.; Juglans duclouxiana Dode; Juglans fallax Dode; Juglans kamaonia (C. DC.) Dode; Juglans orientis Dode; Juglans sinensis (C. DC.) Dode

Local Names

Armenia: (Aenkuzeni sovorakan); Azerbaijan: Qoz; Georgia: – chveulebrivii k’ak’lis khe, – gak’ (Svanetian), – k’ak’ (Svanetian), – k’ak’ra (Svanetian), – nedzi (Megrelian), – nigvzis khe (Gurian, Imeretian, Rachian, Lechkhumian), – nigozi (Gurian, Imeretian, Rachian, Lechkhumian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Walnut.

Botany and Ecology

A big tree, to 20 m high, with a straight upright trunk to 1.5–2 m and even up to 4–7 m in diameter, dark grey fissured bark, and a large spreading crown. Leaves compound, alternate, usually with 3–5 pairs of leaflets, these elongate-ovate, slightly crenate, apex acuminate, glabrous above, hairy below in the axils of veins. Male flowers in drooping catkins with lanceolate bracts; flowers 6-lobed, stamens 12–18, equaling the perianth lobes. Female flowers terminal in...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  3. Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave., 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  5. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  6. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Juglans regia L. Juglandaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_22

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