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,
Forbidden fruit Paramhansa Yogananda cites an interpretation by his master Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri that the Garden of Eden refers to man's body, with the fruit in the center being that of the sexual organs. In Western Europe, the fruit was often depicted as an apple. This was possibly because of a misunderstanding of – or a pun on – "mălum", a native Latin noun which means evil (from the adjective "malus"), and "mālum", another Latin noun, borrowed from Greek μῆλον, which means apple. In the Vulgate, Genesis 2:17 describes the tree as "de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali" : "but