Juglans nigra Juglans nigra Juglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to eastern North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central Texas. Wild trees in the upper Ottawa Valley may be an isolated native population or may have derived from planted trees. Black walnut is an important tree commercially, as the wood is a deep brown color and easily worked. The fruits, walnuts, are cultivated for their distinctive and desirable taste. Often, trees are
Green tree python with large-scale smuggling of wild-caught green tree pythons in Indonesia. Despite this, the green tree python is rated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. German naturalist Hermann Schlegel described the green tree python in 1872 as "Python viridis", from two specimens collected in the Aru Islands of Indonesia. His countryman Adolf Bernhard Meyer erected the genus "Chondropython" (though recognised similarity to "Morelia") and described the green tree python as "Chondropython azureus" in 1874, from a specimen collected in "Kordo", later determined to be Korido on Biak Island. This was destroyed in World War II. French