51. Black Walnut

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Further downhill by the stone bench erected by the Class of 1915 is a stately Black Walnut tree. Across the path from it is the campus' largest pine, a western white pine. We've all eaten ordinary walnuts, but black walnuts possess zestier flavor, and are harder to crack. They grow on enormous trees, native in much of the U.S. (not in the Pacific Northwest), and the wood is supreme in its fine grain, lovely dark color, and hardness. Besides the food and wood, the trees serve as excellent long lived shade trees as the two here on Denny lawn prove.

Pictured below: Map of geographical range of Black Walnut.

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