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THURSDAY. JANUARY 6. 2022 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 7A
PAGE 6A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JANUARY 6. 2022
Commissioners meeting cancelled
Please be advised that the Pickens County Board of Commissioners
Regular Meeting and Work Session for January 6, 2022 has been can
celled.
Nelson Council meeting change
Please be advised the Council Meeting originally scheduled for Janu
ary 3 will be held January 10, 2022.
Marine Corps League meeting
The N. Ga. Mtn. Det. 1280 Marine Corps League invites all Marines
and Navy FMF corpsmen to become involved with us. We support our
active Marines and their families as they are deployed around the globe
to defend our way of life.
We meet the third Saturday of each month at the Pickens County
Recreation Center for breakfast at 0800 with the meeting beginning at
0900 to 1000. For more information contact Wayne Poore at 706-692-
2836. Semper Fi.
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous meetings are held on Mondays, Tuesdays and
Fridays at 8 p.m. at Jasper United Methodist Church, 85 Church Street
Jasper, Ga.
Plants of the Southeast — Black walnut,
Photo/Linda Lee
The black walnut buds of the twig are a bit odd, in being "naked," or
without prominent scales. The buds themselves are somewhat velvety and
gray, equipped with lots of soft hairs.
By John Nelson
University of South Carolina
Outside my window it is cold and
rainy and gray, with a flicker at the
birdfeeder, and three saucy squirrels
below it. I must be honest with you
and proclaim that winter is not my
favorite time of year. It is way too
early to be getting serious cabin-
fever, and longing for the spring,
which is a long way off.
Meanwhile, there's plenty of inter
esting botany, and that makes up for
this hiemal season. For instance,
there are trees’ twigs. You might not
think that twigs are interesting, until
you settle down and start examining
them closely.
This is the twig of an eastern
North American deciduous tree, the
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra). It oc
curs naturally from southern Ontario
west to Iowa, and then broadly dis
tributed all the way to northern
Florida, preferring rich woods and
floodplains.
The buds of the twig are a bit odd,
in being "naked," or without promi
nent scales. The buds themselves are
somewhat velvety and gray,
equipped with lots of soft hairs. Leaf
scars, indicating where last year's
leaf was attached to the twig, are
three-lobed. Perhaps the most signif
icant thing about this twig is that its
inner pith, right in the middle, and re
vealed with a sharp knife (be care
ful!), is what we call "chambered,"
with a series of disk-like, spongy
segments separated by discrete air
chambers. (Not many twigs have this
feature; the pith of most twigs is
termed "continuous," that is, not di
vided into little chambers.)
Otherwise, this is an easily iden
tified tree. It has roughly checkered,
dark bark. The trees are highly prized
for their beautifully-grained wood,
which is a somewhat "classic" source
of fine veneer, cabinetry, and gun-
stocks, and which darkens somewhat
as it ages.
The black walnut wood is so
highly prized that there have been in
stances of illicit harvest, or "tree
rustling," for it. The tree's foliage is
strongly and pleasantly aromatic, and
each leaf is compound, with 12-20 or
so tear-shaped leaflets along the cen
tral, elongated midrib.
Male flowers occur in elongated,
scaly catkins in the spring, while the
tiny female flowers occur in small
clusters. Each developing fruit swells
into a lemon-sized, nut-like structure,
surrounded by a thick husk. By the
middle of the summer, the fruit may
be up to 3" in diameter, with a hard,
lime-green skin. (By the way, the
genus name of this species (Juglans),
and its various relatives, refers to this
massive nut-like structure, translat
ing into the name "Jove's nut.") The
skin of the developing fruit is fra
grant, yielding a marvelous lemony-
" Juglans nigra
Photo/Linda Lee
The black walnut twig’s inner pith is what we call "chambered," with
a series of disk-like, spongy segments separated.;
spicy fragrance when scratched. By
late autumn, the fruits will turn dark,
nearly black, and then fall. Go ahead
and gather a basketful.. .there is a de
licious kernel inside, but available
only after getting through the husk.
Put your gloves on to do this, as the
husk is capable of dark stains. The
kernel resides within a hard shell, but
that can be cracked open, and then
the sweet, nutritious meat can be
picked out.
©JohnNelson2021
[John Nelson is the retired cura
tor of the A. C. Moore Herbarium at
the University of South Carolina, in
the Department of Biological Sci
ences, Columbia SC 29208. As a
public service, the Herbarium offers
free plant identifications. For more
information, visit
www.herbarium.org or email
johnbnelson@sc. rr. com.]
DeAnna Butler is the winner of the Progress Coloring Contest.
DeAnna won a free ice cream from Lollidrops. Congratulations! The
contest runs once a month on the Kids Page.
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