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Heartnut Care Guide Heartnuts have a valentine heart shaped nut and kernel. The tree is very pretty with lush foliage, even more tropical looking than Ailanthus, tree of heaven. Heartnuts are very hardy and mature trees are growing in Montreal with some winter damage. Heartnut trees are low headed, spreading laterally from a single short trunk. They are much more ornamental than the American Black Walnut, which is erect and limby. Heartnuts are the most disease resistant trees of the walnut family and should hold their leaves well into fall. Heartnuts are adaptable to soil types and survive even in soils with a rich moist soil top, with high water table, hardpan or bedrock or cold subsoil underneath. heartnuts cast @ 70% shad. They make an excellent shade tree. Plant trees 30' apart. Hulling heartnuts is easy. They are an easy addition to a gardeners diet because they are easy to grow, crack out of their hull easily and are delicious. Heartnuts store very well. In fact they imporve on their flavor reminiscent to the taste of brazil nuts.
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