Carya hickory sections. All pictures © Jonas Frei, shared with permission
Throughout a go to to the Zürich arboretum, Jonas Frei got here throughout a nut species not often present in Europe. The Juglans cinerea, or white walnut, is native to the U.S. and Canada and has a ribbed, rectangular shell that when cracked, reveals a candy, fleshy innard. Its presence within the Swiss enclave dates again to 1887, when the botanist Carl Joseph Schröter planted a tree that finally produced the non-native fruits and sparked Frei’s enduring curiosity within the plant genus.
Primarily based in Schaffhausen, Frei is a naturalist, illustrator, and panorama architect whose curiosity in botany has taken him to gardens, arboretums, and parks all through Europe and North America. He not too long ago frolicked in Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum after being awarded the James R. Jewett Prize, which allowed him to increase his analysis on the walnut and discover the way it’s migrated over centuries. A lot of his work is targeted on making science simply digestible and visually intriguing to a normal viewers. “Analysis itself actually is my purpose,” he tells Colossal. “I need to perceive the topic and make the data accessible by my writing and the aesthetical presentation of the range of species and cultivars.”
Shared by illustrations and flat-lay photographs, Frei’s research have not too long ago culminated in a e book dedicated to walnuts and hickories, which brings collectively the cultural, historic, and botanical significance of those numerous crops. “I used to be pushed not solely by my scientific curiosity in Juglandaceae but additionally by my enthusiasm for the aesthetics of their habits, leaves, and fruits. The readers of my e book ought to be capable of make their very own journey of discovery by the walnut household, on the tracks I’ve uncovered with my analysis,” he says.
The expanded version of Frei’s e book, which incorporates updates from his research at Arnold Arboretum, is offered together with posters, prints, and an analogous quantity targeted on hazelnuts on his web site. Observe his newest analysis on Instagram.
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