Hey there! Any guesses today on what these might be?
Will check in with you all later!
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These are the nuts of the Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, still in the husk.
It’s quite nasty to get off and stains our paws, so we don’t bother collecting these until the winter weather has disintegrated the husk. Miz Flora says humans used to collect them and use the husks for dye.
By the way, each of those long ‘branches’ of drooping leaves is one single leaf with many leaflets.
Like other forest mast producers, the Black Walnut trees we spotted are flush with nuts this year.
Quite scary actually for Nutmeg and I to be below them, so we stuck to the branches around its perimeter.
Beautiful, but enjoy at a distance.