Walnut Podcast Script:
When you hear of a walnut, most people tend to think about things like cookies, candied walnut, or any of the 3000 other kind of sweet deserts. The last thing that would ever come across a person’s mind would be something dorky like its family: Juglandaceae or the Juglone that comes out of its roots and kill the nearby plants…unless you’re a science nerd, in which then you need a life. Ok, jokes aside, if you think about it, the walnut tree shows a side of Heritage and migration. It originally came from the Italy/Greece region of Europe and made its passage to the Middle East and the Americas. It’s adaptive skills of having very deep roots to absorb water and its ability to grow over 60 ft shows that this walnut has more than just a tough shell on its fruit.
The actual fruit of the dicot plant is quite extraordinary. Before this project, I had always assumed that walnuts came from peaches, just because the peach hull looked just like a walnut. Now here on earth, the walnut fruit has an outer green fleshy covering, and inside it divides into two endocarps, which are two halves of the actual nut.
Speaking of nuts, if you’re wondering if there’s any point to care-besides that this is an assignment- if you ever care to enter the furniture making business, you may want to look into the Walnut. Its wood is prized quite high across the world. There, now you have some leverage over others. I expect a commission when you make your first sell.

Thanks for listening; now go outside and smell a walnut leaf, they’re very aromatic
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