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Family Juglandaceae

Genera, JUGLANS and HICORIA

RESINOUS, aromatic trees with hard wood. Leaves deciduous, alternate, pinnately compound. Flowers monoecious: staminate lateral, in catkins; pistillate terminal, in spikes, or solitary. Fruit, a bony nut enclosed in a spongy husk.