Shellbark Hickory
Scientific Name:Carya laciniosa
Common Name Synonyms: Kingnut Hickory


NOTES: Shaggy, peeling bark and large, sweet, edible nuts, the largest of the hickory species. Compound leaves, 7-9 leaflets, and very large. Orangish twigs help distinguish it from Shagbark Hickory. Grows in moist bottomlands.

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Shellbark Hickory
Genus species: Carya laciniosa
Common Names: Shellbark Hickory
Kingnut Hickory
Family Name: Juglandaceae  
Deciduous trees, often resinous and aromatic; leaves alternate, odd-pinnately compound; flowers unisexual (plants monoecious), bracteate, the male in catkins, the female solitary or in spikes; fruit a drupelike nut, enclosed in an involucre.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Tree
Identified by:A. Swanson

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