Juglans mandshuricaMaxim.

Manchurian WalnutManchurian walnut

WFO wfo-0001067447 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Juglans mandshurica, photographed by Halema J
fig. a Halema J, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 192695146

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
255118
Filed as
Juglans mandshurica Maxim.
Det. by
Unspecified Determiner
Collected
Maxim. 1859
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Juglans mandshurica is native: Amur, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Taiwan AmurChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaJapanKhabarovskManchuriaPrimoryeTaiwan Korea
Native distribution of Juglans mandshurica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM
Taiwan TAI

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 39 in flower of 161 examined

Proportion of examined Juglans mandshurica in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 8 0% 0% to 32%
Feb 0 6 0% 0% to 39%
Mar 0 2 too few examined
Apr 21 27 78% 59% to 89%
May 14 27 52% 34% to 69%
Jun 0 23 0% 0% to 14%
Jul 0 20 0% 0% to 16%
Aug 0 11 0% 0% to 26%
Sep 0 12 0% 0% to 24%
Oct 0 9 0% 0% to 30%
Nov 4 10 40% 17% to 69%
Dec 0 6 0% 0% to 39%

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Juglans mandshurica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 39 of 161 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,443 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -23.6 °C -10.9 °C -7.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.7 °C 23.0 °C 25.6 °C
Annual rainfall 484 mm 689 mm 898 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 27 mm 105 mm 126 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,443 research-grade observations of Juglans mandshurica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 39 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Juglans ailantifolia Carrière
  • Juglans ailantifolia var. cordiformis (Makino) Rehder
  • Juglans allardiana Dode
  • Juglans allardiana var. acuta Koidz.
  • Juglans avellana Dode
  • Juglans cathayensis Dode
  • Juglans cathayensis var. formosana (Hayata) A.M.Lu & R.H.Chang
  • Juglans coarctata Dode
  • Juglans collapsa Dode
  • Juglans cordiformis Maxim.
  • Juglans cordiformis var. ailantifolia (Carrière) Rehder
  • Juglans coreensis Siebold
  • Juglans draconis Dode
  • Juglans formosana Hayata
  • Juglans japonica Siebold ex Miq.
  • Juglans kurumi Siebold
  • Juglans lavallei Dode
  • Juglans macrophylla J.N.Haage & E.Schmidt
  • Juglans mandshurica f. acuta (Koidz.) Kitam.
  • Juglans mandshurica f. coarctata (Dode) Kitam.
  • Juglans mandshurica f. rugosa (Koidz.) Kitam.
  • Juglans mandshurica f. shinanoana (Makino) Kitam.
  • Juglans mandshurica f. sieboldiana (Makino) Kitam.
  • Juglans mandshurica f. stenocarpa Uyeki

and 15 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.