Carya cordiformis (Wang.) K. Koch (bitternut hickory), growth habit, tree form
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2005 – 2012
Carya cordiformis (Wang.) K. Koch (bitternut hickory), image shows a young tree's outline in center, mature height is 50-75' and larger, this species of hickory has strikingly sulphur yellow buds that permit distinction from other hickory species, slender tree with rather irregular cylindrical crown of stiff ascending branches often widest at top, fastest growing of the hickories, bark is gray to brown and shallowly furrowed, fruit is suborbicular 1.25" long and 4-winged, seeds are bitter and so squirrels ignore them
