Transcript Bitternut Hickory

Common
Name:
Bitternut
Hickory
Scientific
Name:
Carya
cordiformis
*Also known as
Swamp Hickory
Spring
Fall
Winter
Summer
 Thin
 Smooth and
silvery gray
 Tight against
trunk
 Hard to the
touch
 Alternate
 Compound
 7 to 10
inches long
 7 to 11
leaflets
 Dark green
on top
 Pale green
on bottom
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MALES ARE YELLOW-GREEN
DROOPING CATKINS WITH 3
HANGING FROM ONE STALK
EACH 3 TO 4 INCHES LONG
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FEMALES ARE SHORT, 4ANGLED, ON A TERMINAL
SPIKE, APPEARING IN
SPRING.
Caterpillar
Whatever this little
dude is
Ants
Bitternut hickory is monoecious ; male and female flowers are produced on the same tree.
The male flowers are in catkins about 8 to 10 cm (3 to 4 in)
Female flowers are about 13 mm (0.5 in)
Usually the male flowers emerge before the female flowers
Female
Male
Because bitternut hickory wood is hard
and durable it is used for :
•Furniture
•Paneling
•Dowels
•Handles
•Ladders
•Meat smoking
•Bars
•Crates
•Pallets
•Flooring
•Heating
 Early settlers used oil extracted from the nuts for oil lamps.
 They also believed the oil was valuable as a cure for rheumatism
 The foliage of bitternut, hickory has a high calcium content and is near the
top of the list of soil-improving species
 Bitternut hickory is cut and sold in mixture with the true hickories
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It has virtually no disease or pest problems and
grows rapidly.
The lifespan of a bitternut hickory is moderate
living to about 200 years.
Native Americans use the oil of a bitternut
hickory to mix with food for flavoring and also
used the mashed nuts in bread and other foods.
The fruit is so bitter that even squirrels tend to
stay away from them.
It is the shortest lived of all hickory trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgEg7XCpSGE
Seed
Small, Buried
Food, Fuel, Leaves, Oxygen
Dying, pollution, crumbling
Reproducing, Tree
Seeds
The tree looked very healthy throughout the project. -Billy Van
Lenten
I think it was a cool, fun experience to learn about our tree. –
Haley Duffie
I enjoyed being able to watch our tree grow and mature. –
Kailyn Wray
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=
18
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/forestry/iowa_trees/trees/bitte
rnut_hickory.html
http://www.mortonarb.org/trees-plants/tree-plantdescriptions/bitternut-hickory
http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/hickory_bitternut/hickor
y_bitternut.html
http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=caco15