Help me identify this tree if you can...

[RB]

Large, sometimes VERY large tree (~25m) as the specimen found just leaving Fontana in Gozo on the way to Xlendi...

Found in Buskett also.

Leaves (forgive my amateur desc) with leaflets, a la Pistachia Lentiscus (in layout ONLY, much larger and differently shaped). The leaflets are pointy and narrowish, and the entire "assembly" (hahahaha I bet you love this) about 30 cm long.

Bearing at this time still-green individual fruits about 3-4 cm long with 3 "edges", and seems like there is one seed inside, but not 100% sure.

There is also one in Mosta Valley not far from the Speranza Chapel just upstream of the dam.

I would love to know about this...

RB

[Sdravko]

Carya (maybe) ilinoinensis, the most common walnut in Malta. During the winter you will be able to collect the nuts which are smaller than some American varieties but very tasty.

[RB]

Yo-hooo that seems to be it! Maybe a slight variety as compared to the pics I found on the net (btw - it's commonly called the pecan tree) the leaflets seem to be narrower and more pointy in the Malta trees.

Thanks, I will definitely collect the nuts and plant this... I have just the place for this.

RB

[jackpot]

...not it seems to be- IT IS C. illinoinensis!
The biggest one I`ve ever seen is in Buskett! The sign in San Anton is wrong (but I propose that they have changed it meanwhile (C. olivaeformis was the old name)