Shagbark Hickory, Shellbark Hickory Scientific Name: Carya ovata
Description: A large and beautiful tree with wide-spreading boughs, 60-90' and occasionally 140' high, with a trunk diameter of 4', especially valued for its delicately flavored nuts. Bark pale brown gray, remarkably shredded and shaggy, loosely attached, hanging in strips commonly a foot long and several inches wide, the tips outcurled from the trunk. The foliage a handsome green, the branches rather pendulous, the general contour irregularly ovoid, with a narrow head.
Habitat: Common in rich uplands.
Range: Is distributed from the valley of the St. Lawrence River, and southern Maine, south to western Florida and central Alabama and Mississippi, and west to southern Michigan and central Minnesota, northeastern Nebraska, central Kansas, Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
