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Carya laciniosa, the shellbark hickory, in the Juglandaceae or walnut family is also called kingnut, big, bottom, thick, or western shellbark, attesting to some of its characteristics. It is a slow-growing, long-lived tree, hard to transplant because of its long taproot, and subject to insect damage.
Carya tomentosa, commonly known as mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut, is a species of tree in the walnut family Juglandaceae. The most abundant of the hickories, and common in the eastern half of the United States, it is long lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight-growing ...
The nine or ten genera in the family have a total of around 50 species, [3] and include the commercially important nut-producing trees walnut (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), and hickory (Carya). The Persian walnut, Juglans regia, is one of the major nut crops of the world. Walnut, hickory, and gaulin are also valuable timber trees while ...
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes 19 species accepted by Plants of the World Online. [3] Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India , and twelve are native to North America. A number of hickory species are used for their edible nuts or for their wood.
Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts.All species are deciduous trees, 10–40 metres (33–131 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres (7.9–35.4 in), with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts (Pterocarya), but not ...
Illiciaceae (anise-tree family) Juglandaceae: walnut family; Carya: hickories and pecans; Carya aquatica: water hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 401 Carya cordiformis: bitternut hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 402 Carya floridana: scrub hickory; Florida hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) Carya glabra: pignut hickory Juglandaceae ...
Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory native to eastern North America, with two varieties. The trees can grow to quite a large size but are unreliable in their fruit output. The trees can grow to quite a large size but are unreliable in their fruit output.
Carya texana (called black hickory for its dark colored bark, or Texas hickory) is a North American tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae. It is endemic to the United States, found primarily in the southern Great Plains and the Lower Mississippi Valley. [2] [3] It is an endangered species in Indiana, where it occurs in the southwest corner of ...