Juglandaceae

Juglandaceae
Juglans regia
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fagales
Faimily:	Juglandaceae DC. ex Perleb
Subfaimilies
See text
Synonyms
Platycaryaceae Nakai ex Doweld Pterocaryaceae Nakai, nom. inval. Rhoipteleaceae Hand.-Mazz., nom. cons.[1]

Juglandaceae, forby kent as the wawnit faimily, is a faimily o trees, or whiles shrubs, in the order Fagales. Various members o this faimily is native tae the Americas, Eurasie, an Sootheast Asie. Members o the walnut faimily hae lairge, aromatic leafs that is uisually alternate, but opposite in Alfaroa an Oreomunnia. The leafs is pinnately compound, or ternate, an uisually 20–100 cm lsng.

The trees is wind-pollinated, an the flouers is uisually arranged in catkins.

The aicht genera in the faimily include the commercially important nit-producin trees wawnit (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), an hickory (Carya). The Persie wawnit, Juglans regia, is ane o the major nit craps o the warld. Wawnit, hickory, an gaulin is valuable timber trees an aa.

1. ↑ "Family: Juglandaceae DC. ex Perleb, nom. cons". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 17 Januar 2003. Archived frae the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2011.