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This time I don't know the answer but that's often the case. Every year around this time hundreds of hickory nuts lay in wait to break my ankles. But this year a batch of giant round green ?nuts have fallen and I see the source. I have taken photos : ) I have an idea but I'm not telling. The picture below are hickory nuts with the big guy on the upper right being Mr. Mystery. . There will be a prize for the winner. I hope she doesn't live in Canada : ) It's hard to ship certain things there.

Update
A Baker's dozen of unhulled walnuts is available for $50 plus shipping. Warning, they weigh a ton. The unhulled nuts smell like citrus.

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Permalink Reply by Ricki and Tara (doodle) on October 17, 2013 at 5:41pm

Hmmm...Walnut or Chestnut?

Permalink Reply by Sheila & Finnley on October 17, 2013 at 5:48pm

I'm voting chestnut, or maybe a kukui nut. However, there is a horse chestnut tree next door to me. The green shell has prickles on it though, but other then that it looks the same. I don't think the kukui nut has prickles though. Oh I don't know !

Permalink Reply by F, Calla & Luca on October 17, 2013 at 6:03pm

Well I never heard of a Kukui but since it grows in the tropics and has completely different leaves we'll nix that one. And most definitely not a horse chestnut either.

Permalink Reply by F, Calla & Luca on October 17, 2013 at 6:16pm

When I was a kid, my father would practically shout out "Horse Chestnut", with the accent on the wrong syllables every time we passed one. I never would have missed the big plumes of flowers and the leaves are all wrong too.

Permalink Reply by F, Calla & Luca on October 17, 2013 at 6:04pm

Good beginning.

Permalink Reply by Donna K & Quincy on October 17, 2013 at 5:45pm

I'm going with Black Walnut. :>)

Permalink Reply by F, Calla & Luca on October 17, 2013 at 6:06pm

Damn!!!! I said no one from Canada and I knew that you would stick your oar in. I think it is a walnut. Where the doodle did that come from. Tomorrow the hunt begins because I think I have more than one. This may make my fortune if I live another 50-100 years. I think the wood is very valuable : )

Permalink Reply by Ricki and Tara (doodle) on October 17, 2013 at 5:47pm

Eastern Black Walnut.

Permalink Reply by Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle on October 17, 2013 at 5:55pm

Yep, that would be my guess, too.

Permalink Reply by Janice Jones on October 17, 2013 at 5:52pm

Don't think that is a chestnut leave pattern, so guessing Black Walnut

Permalink Reply by Janice Jones on October 17, 2013 at 6:09pm

Second guess...hickory nut. I really don't have any idea, I am just guessing :-)

Permalink Reply by F, Calla & Luca on October 17, 2013 at 6:13pm

No the hickory nuts are much smaller as you can see in the picture and the leaves are very different.

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