Carya Nutt. (hickory), growth habit, tree form
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2005 – 2012
Carya Nutt. (hickory), image shows a large magnificent hickory specimen, hickories are temperate forest trees with pinnately compound leaves and large nuts, the flowers are small yellowish green catkins which emerge in spring, wind pollinates these self-incompatible trees, fruit is a globose or oval nut 0.8–2.0" long and 0.6–1.2" diameter enclosed in a four-valved husk which splits open at maturity, nut shell is thick and bony in most species and thin in a few (notably C. illinoinensis, nut is divided into two halves which split apart when the seed germinates
