Juglans mandshurica other popular "Juglans" species and usually causes few significant allelopathic effects in cultivation. "Juglans cathayensis", characterized by tomentose leaflets, producing more flowers per spike and growing south of the Yellow River, was sometimes recognized as a species separate from "J. mandshurica". The Japanese walnut ("oni-gurumi") is listed by some authorities as "Juglans mandshurica" var. "sachalinensis" (syn. "Juglans ailantifolia") Juglans mandshurica Juglans mandshurica, the Manchurian walnut, is a deciduous tree of the genus "Juglans" (section "Cardiocaryon"), native to the Eastern Asiatic Region (China, Russian Far East, North Korea and South Korea). It grows to about 25 m. The leaves are alternate,
Fruit contrast, rhubarb is often referred to as a fruit, because it is used to make sweet desserts such as pies, though only the petiole (leaf stalk) of the rhubarb plant is edible, and edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts. Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat, is also a kind of fruit, termed a caryopsis. However, the fruit wall is very thin and is fused to the seed coat, so almost all of the edible grain is actually a seed. The outer, often edible layer, is the "pericarp", formed