“Like those of pecan trees, the buds of bitternut hickory are naked, not covered by bud scales,” she says. “What we are seeing is actually minute powdery-yellow leaves.” The bitternut ...

The bark is brownish-black, and leaves are 18–24 inches long, containing nine to 17 narrow, long leaflets with a hook shape near each tip. Nuts are cylindrical. The bitternut hickory (Carya ...

Made up of seven to 11 toothed and pointed leaflets, the compound leaves grow up to 10 inches long. Leaves turn yellow in the fall. The grayish bark appears scaly; trunks grow up to 2 feet in ...

which can easily be seen in winter when leaves have fallen in the woods. My hickory still has fairly smooth bark, so how do I know it’s a shagbark and not a bitternut hickory or other hickory ...

The bitternut hickory has one of the less appealing nuts ... Hickories have compound leaves with a central stem bearing multiple leaflets along the sides and at the end.

Anytime, anywhere, I could see myself hiking with my parents or siblings past its slender leaves, or splashing ... in fact, bitternut hickory, not shagbark, and thus produced nuts we’d find ...

The tree's fall leaf color is a rich gold ... are common and recognizable by their rock-hard shells. Bitternut and pignut are two other hickory types that aren't nearly as tasty (somewhat bitter ...

And the bitternut hickories aren't uncommon in ... popping the ball through a maze hickory limbs and leaves. Usually, the tree abruptly turned homers into singles, as the baseball ricocheted ...