Butternut Tree. A butternut tree typically shares its habitat with a variety of other types of trees, especially hardwoods. They grow wild throughout the forests of the northeast (range map).

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Butternut trees usually prefer loose, well drained soil. Butternut trees can be distinguished from black walnut by looking at its fruit: Its nut is delightful, in that it's very mild, sweet and oily. Butternut's fruit is the trunks of butternut trees are fluted, which is sometimes still evident in processed lumber—the growth.