The hanging flowers are walut-like. My thinking is the are either just that different on this species or perhaps they have started to drop pieces?
Look at those leaf scars... If that is all I had to go by, I'd say walut for sure.
Spent some time digging to see what my other Juglans are. You are right...they all have pointed leaves. Also I see what you mean with the samara-like structure on the raceme.
I'm going to stick with Juglandaceae but go with a genus I honestly did not know was in the family (I thought it was either Juglans or Carya): Pterocarya ... The wingnuts. My best guess now is Chinese wingnut Pterocarya stenoptera. And I'm sticking to until somebody shows or suggests something that will change my mind! Some of the pictures have moire rounded leaves while others are more pointed.
Glad to see your Google worked too I was looking at that on the phone, and it is a little more of a paid to do links there...What ...no link?
OK. I'll find it.
Yeah, I agree it could be those others...I claim ZERO expertise in this Genus. Look at the leaf in the dead center of your second picture and the lowest one in the bottom picture. Both of those looked to have a winged rachis which looking at a few ID pages seems to be on Chinese but not Caucasian...or the others. Again - I could be talked out of this, but that is still my best guess.Ok. I think you are hot on the trail here, but the pics I have of that species are acuminate leaves, and the wingnuts are quite a bit more prominent. Of course, my mystery tree might just get bigger wingnuts with time.
Check out this link: http://luirig.altervista.org/biology/main.php?taxon=Pterocarya+stenoptera
Did you consider Pterocarya fraxinifolia? The Caucasian wingnut (yep, that's it's name!) is equally acuminate, but the raceme and samara look a bit more like my mystery tree.
If I go down to the Zoo and stick a nice permanent label on the tree stating that it is a Caucasian Wingnut tree, I'll bet that they cut the tree down as racially insensitive. It is located right at the entrance to the "Africa" section of the zoo!
Pterocarya tonkinensis: no. apex acute to acuminate, even pinnately compound
Pterocarya macroptera: Maybe. leaves are pointy.
Pterocarya hupehensis: no. apex acute to acuminate, even pinnately compound
Pterocarya × rehderiana: Maybe. leaves are pointy.
It occurs to me that these trees seem to have the samara vertically arranged: parallel to the axis of the raceme. Our mystery tree does not seem to be built that way. I wonder if this makes any difference taxonomically?
Glad to see your Google worked too I was looking at that on the phone, and it is a little more of a paid to do links there...
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re: Caucasian wingnut...that is funny. I guess it would depend if it is on the left or right. A left wingnut would probably be tolerated because they say they have no biases
Agreed...I had time to kill so I used what I had to find/post that. I much prefer the computer to the phone for internet, but it sure is handy when I want to look something up quickly in the field.I can't stand to do much research on a phone. That is what computers are for. Tiny screens with even tinier touch points make it rather impractical for me. The smart phone is only for when you really need an answer and don't have a computer handy...IMO.
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Forget plugging in the monitor and the printer and help load the fish
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