The hickory can be found across North America from Canada to Mexico in every USDA hardiness zone. It grows best in ... While ...

Nuts are cylindrical. The bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis) also commonly called the swamp hickory, loves moist conditions and hates drought and poor drainage, though it can be found in some ...

Staten Island's indigenous species include mockernut, pignut, shagbark, and bitternut hickory. Mockernut is the most common. Its name refers to the relatively small amount of edible "meat ...

The hickory genus, Carya, includes one of the tastiest nuts-the pecan, and one of the most inedible-the bitternut hickory. But it’s the distinctive shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, that I want to ...

Hickory was also fine firewood and gave a distinctive flavor to smoked ham and bacon. The two hickories native to the Chicago area, shagbark and bitternut, are closely related to pecans ...

This week, we introduce the bitternut hickory or Carya cordiformis. This cousin of the pecan, has anywhere from five to 11 leaflets, commonly seven to nine, on each alternately held compound leaf.

There are five varieties of hickory that are native here: the pignut, mockernut, shagbark, shellbark and bitternut hickory. Pignut and mockernut hickories prefer upland areas and are often ...

My hickory still has fairly smooth bark, so how do I know it’s a shagbark and not a bitternut hickory or other hickory species that share similar characteristics? People disembark from a train ...

Virginia’s native bitternut hickory is easily recognized among the hickories, according to Helen Hamilton, president of the John Clayton Chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society. “Like those of ...

Hickory trees are one of the most important hardwood trees in North America. Hickory isn't one single type of tree; it's a variety of species within the Carya genus. There are about 12 species ...