Article: KINNELON

TIMOTHY D. MAY, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-27-1996
KINNELON -- FAN CLUB GROWS FOR AILING LANDMARK KIDS' EFFORTS HELP ANCIENT BUTTERNUT

By TIMOTHY D. MAY, Staff Writer
Date: 09-27-1996, Friday
Section: NEWS
Edition: 2 Star, Also in 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 1 Star
Column: LOCAL REPORT

Its bark is ash-colored, and its fruit so esteemed that taxonomists
named this tree after the most important god in Roman mythology:
Jupiter, lord of thunder and sky.

And in Kinnelon, there is one specimen of regal Juglans cinerea --
commonly known as butternut or white walnut -- like no other in North
America, tree experts say.

Nearly two centuries old, the tree stands 65 feet tall and has a
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