Juglans nigra English or Persian walnut, but thrives best in the warmer regions of fertile, lowland soils with high water tables, although it will also grow in drier soils, but much more slowly. Some soils preferred by black walnut include Alfisol and Entisol soil types. Walnut grows best on sandy loam, loam, or silt loam type soils but will also grow well on silty clay loam soils. It prefers these soils because they hold large quantities of water which the tree draws from during dry periods. Visually, black walnut is similar to the butternut ("Juglans cinerea") in leaf shape, and the range
Green rosella eucalypts—forming the bulk of its diet; other items eaten include the seed of the soft tree fern ("Dicksonia antarctica"), cranberry heath ("Astroloma humifusum"), myrtle beech ("Lophozonia cunninghamii"), Australian blackwood ("Acacia melanoxylon"), silver wattle ("Acacia dealbata") and buttercups ("Ranunculus"), berries, nuts and fruit, as well as flowers and new buds of southern sassafras ("Atherosperma moschatum"), mānuka ("Leptospermum scoparium"), shining tea-tree ("Leptospermum nitidum"), swamp honey-myrtle ("Melaleuca squamea"), Tasmanian bluegum ("Eucalyptus globulus"), Smithton peppermint ("Eucalyptus nitida"), messmate stringybark ("Eucalyptus obliqua"), snow gum ("Eucalyptus pauciflora"), manna gum ("Eucalyptus viminalis"), small-fruit hakea ("Hakea microcarpa") and native plum ("Cenarrhenes nitida"). The green rosella has at times