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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

Bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis ... giving the tree its shaggy look. In fall, the leaves turn a clear yellow. The shagbark hickory nut has a thick green husk that splits and falls off ...

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 ...