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Community gifts Andean Walnut
£3
Sponsor one or more Andean Walnut trees and help fight deforestion in the Amazon. Each tree plays a vital role in the biodiversity of the rainforest. When you protect a tree you receive a special certificate via email or through the post. View it's location in your Cool Earth account. Help fight climate change and keep this tree standing.
- Local name
- Nogal
- Latin name
- Juglans neotropica
- Height
- Up to 30m
- Girth
- 40cm
- CO2 stored (tonnes)
- 4
- Leaves
- Bright green leaves, in matched pairs.
- Fruit
- Edible fruit in hard husk.
- Location
- Up to 2000m altitude in wet mountain forests.
The Andean Walnut tree produces edible nuts in hard husks. The walnuts have been known to have aphrodisiac qualities containing an amino acid which improves the blood supply. As well as having a high energetic value the sap from the walnut shell is also a strong dye. Walnut wood is extremely durable and so highly prized for veneers.
