This is a high quality, thin shelled “English” walnut that appears to be very resistant to blight, codling moth and husk fly. The mother tree is a non-grafted seedling nearly 3 foot in diameter, bearing abundant crops even in the drought, with no human care. A most striking feature of this variety is the huge leaves, many larger than 2 hands in size. The grandmother tree is late to leaf out, thus missing most spring frosts. This will make a productive and striking landscape tree, with tasty, thin shelled nuts of good size. The nuts ripen in late September into October at 3900’ feet in the Sierra.