Juglans cinerea
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Juglans cinerea, commonly known as butternut or white walnut, is a species of walnut native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
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A butternut
Fossilized Juglans cinerea (fossil white walnut) in Pleistocene glacial sediments, Michigan
Butternuts killed by butternut canker
L'Anse aux Meadows
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L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located near St. Anthony on the northernmost tip
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…in a windstorm in 2015, and collapsed on May 1, 2021, at the age of 176 years. Butternut wood has been found at the pre-Columbian Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, an island where butternut does not grow and to which it therefore is presumed to have been transported from…
Recreated Norse buildings at L'Anse aux Meadows
A model depicting the Norse settlement established at L'Anse aux Meadows
Anne Stine Ingstad at L'Anse aux Meadows, 1963. Ingstad, along with her husband, led an archaeological excavation of the site.
The remains of Norse buildings on display. The remains of seven Norse buildings were uncovered during the Ingstads' excavation of the site.