Juglans microcarpa var. "stewartii". Where the range of "J. microcarpa" overlaps with "J. major", the two species interbreed, producing populations with intermediate characteristics. This phenomenon has also been found where "J. microcarpa" trees grows near "J. nigra trees. "Juglans" (literally "Jupiter's acorn") is the Latin name of the walnut. "Microcarpa" means "having small fruit". Juglans microcarpa Juglans microcarpa, known also as the little walnut, Texas walnut, Texas black walnut or little black walnut (as it belongs to the "black walnuts" section "Juglans" sect. "Rhysocaryon"), is a large shrub or small tree (10–30 ft tall) which grows wild along streams and ravines in
Christmas tree and Eve in various countries. In such plays, a tree decorated with apples (to represent the forbidden fruit) and wafers (to represent the Eucharist and redemption) was used as a setting for the play. Like the Christmas crib, the Paradise tree was later placed in homes. The apples were replaced by round objects such as shiny red balls. At the end of the Middle Ages, an early predecessor appears referred in the Regiment of the Order of Cister around 1400, in Alcobaça, Portugal. The Regiment of the local "high-Sacristans" of the Cistercian Order refers to what may be considered one