Talk:Juglans nigra

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Note to editors: The comment I added about helicopters seems like a joke, but it is not. It is described briefly in "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants," which I added to the references section. --User:maxwahrhaftig 27 Dec 2005

I agree with "maxwahrhaftig". In my research on Black Walnut coffins I've come across references from the 1960s that say harvested trees can be worth over $10,000. The source didn't have good reference material behind it so I didn't want to add it to the main text. I modified the image lay-out a bit, and added a picture of the wood in cross-section I took during my research. I've included the Bruce Hoadley text I used to identify the cross section in my studies. ZenTrowel 06:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Nice additions, thanks! I moved the leaf pic back higher up as pics and bullet points (in the refs) don't format well together. - MPF 12:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalized?

Shouldn't the article name be Black walnut, lowercase W? If so, I propose we move it to that.--Kaz 16:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Disagree. Caps for species names is an accepted and widely used policy, for many good reasons; see the WP:TOL page and its talk archives. All the other species in Category:Fagales are capitalised and this page would be out of accord with related pages if moved - MPF 22:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I see nothing in WP:TOL which says species names should be capitalized. It does say that species epithets should be capitalized, but the example clearly does NOT capitalize the following words. --Kaz 17:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Walnut Ink

There is a Wikipedia article on making ink from black walnut husks. As I'm new to editing, I don't know what the general procedure is, but I think it should be included in this article as an important use of walnuts. Also, I found a much better walnut ink article at http://home.insightbb.com/~denevell_books/making_walnut_ink.htm but once again I don't know the procedures... it would be plagarism to copy it, right? -Dranorter 4.229.162.23 (talk · contribs)

The article (Walnut ink) is currently a how-to, so it should be transwikied (I'll do that now). Yes, it would be plagarism to copy the article from another site ("Copyvio" for short). This article should really have some information about its use as a dye and as an ink though. SB_Johnny | ^talk 10:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toxicity of Black Walnut

As a beginning woodturner, I found, quite by accident, that I am very allergic to the sawdust from Black Walnut. Investigating this I found references to this on various websites. It would be helpful to include some discussion in regards to this issue on the main page for this beautiful wood.

Here are just a few of the references I found by "googling" - "toxic woods"

[1] [2] [3]

Chris H 4/6/2007—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.29.233.204 (talk) 18:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC).