Trees live up to 150 years. Fruit: Encased in a husk composed of four ridges that come to a point, the bitter nut reaches up to 11/2 inches in diameter. Greenish flowers open before leaves appear.

Bitternut hickory has tight light to silvery gray bark with interlacing ridges throughout the life of the tree. The fruit is a light colored, small, round nut, with a thick hull and a slight wing ...

The pignut hickory is not as popular, but the local species does produce fairly tasty fruit. The bitternut hickory has one of the less appealing nuts -- as its name implies. The pecan ...

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 ...