The properties of English Walnut and Black Walnut are similar. Although English Walnut is not native to the America's. Actually it is not even native to England. It is grown in Eastern Europe and over to Asia. There are only two walnuts native to the America's(to the best of my recollection). One is the Black Walnut we have been talking about. And the other is White Walnut. Better known as Butternut or Juglans Cinerea, Tom