Family: Juglandaceae Genus: Juglans Common name: Walnut tree, noguer, noguera, anouer (Benissili, Parcent, Murla, Castells, Calp). Uses and properties: Edible or food uses. Medicinal. - Boil 4 or 5 leaves for about 1 minute in 4 or 5 litres of water to wash wounds and ailments and for vaginal baths (Benissili).
- Anouer oil, made by frying some leaves in cooking oil; this oil is rubbed on wood (doors, chairs...) to give it colour (Benissili).
Flowering time: April to June. Life forms: Macrophanerophyte (Macrofaneròfit). Habitats: Cultivated. Garden plants. Cultivated as an ornamental in many gardens. Features: A deciduous tree, growing to over 20 m tall, with a broad crown; the trunk is thick, smooth and silvery grey. The leaves are compound, imparipinnate with 5 to 9 entire leaflets, obovate, light green, glabrous and very fragrant when rubbed. Fat, spherical fruits; the green, fleshy outer part, which turns black and rots, reveals the wrinkled shell of the nut. Male flowers in hanging green catkins, borne on the previous year's branches. The female flowers are borne in clusters of one to four at the end of the branches of the previous year.
Notes: The wood is used in luxury joinery and for rifle and shotgun butts. - "The anoers don't have to stand near the house because they give headaches" (Pego).
Information taken from the website http://herbarivirtual.uib.es/ and from Pellicer, Joan (2000). Costumari Botànic [2]. Edicions del Bullent. |