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Shellbark hickory is free of serious diseases, but it is a host species for a variety of fungi. More than 130 fungi have been identified from species of Carya. These include leaf disease, stem canker, wood rot, and root rot-causing fungi. Specific information for shellbark hickory is not available. [4]
Carya myristiciformis, the nutmeg hickory, a tree of the Juglandaceae or walnut family, also called swamp hickory or bitter water hickory, is found as small, possibly relict populations across the Southern United States and in northern Mexico on rich moist soils of higher bottom lands and stream banks. Little is known of the growth rate of ...
Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory native to eastern North America, with two varieties. The trees can grow to quite a large size but are unreliable in their fruit output. The trees can grow to quite a large size but are unreliable in their fruit output.
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes 19 species accepted by Plants of the World Online. [3]Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India (), and twelve are native to North America.
Carya laciniosa (shellbark hickory) [54] Broadly, but not commonly, distributed. The wood is used for tool handles and furniture. The nuts are the largest among the hickories, providing food for wildlife. Uses: timber; palatable food, sap resins, veneers. [55] ME, the eastern Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast
Habitats within the park include wetlands, forests and dunes. Trees include the uncommon Big Shellbark Hickory. Limestone shelves along the lake shore contain the fossils of marine animals from the Devonian period. The fossil beds also contain deposits of chert, a stone similar to flint which was worked to produce stone points. An archeological ...
The current oak–hickory forest includes the former range of the oak–chestnut forest region, which encompassed the northeast portion of the current oak–hickory range. When the American chestnut population succumbed to invasive fungal blight in the early 20th century, those forests shifted to an oak and hickory dominated ecosystem.
water hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 401 Carya cordiformis: bitternut hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 402 Carya floridana: scrub hickory; Florida hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) Carya glabra: pignut hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 403 Carya illinoinensis: pecan Juglandaceae (walnut family) Carya laciniosa: shellbark hickory