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The walnut. Maggiuli (1995: 371-72) has recently revived the idea, based on a dumb comment by Servius ad loc., that the nux of G. 1.187 is the almond (Prunus amygdalus). Mynors writes (1990: 43 ad loc.): "nux: without qualification is always the walnut (E. 8.30, G. 2.69), still noce in Italy and noix in France. . . . Serv., followed by Isid. 17.7.23, takes it here to be the almond. . . . The almond is nowhere else nux without epithet expressed or implied, it does not grow in siluae, its branches do not droop, and it has no smell."

Walnuts, along with eggs, bread, and figs, were among the carbonized remains at Herculaneum:

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