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Carya ovata var. ovata (northern shagbark hickory) has its largest leaflets over 20 cm (8 in) long and nuts 3–4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) long. Carya ovata var. australis (southern shagbark hickory or Carolina hickory) has its largest leaflets under 20 cm (8 in) long and nuts 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) long.
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
Carya laciniosa, the shellbark hickory, in the Juglandaceae or walnut family is also called kingnut, big, bottom, thick, or western shellbark, attesting to some of its characteristics. It is a slow-growing, long-lived tree, hard to transplant because of its long taproot, and subject to insect damage.
Hickory (Carya) Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) Pignut hickory (Carya glabra) Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) Shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa) Hornbeam (Carpinus spp.) American hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) Ipê (Handroanthus spp.) Iroko, African teak (Milicia excelsa) Ironwood. Balau (Shorea spp.) American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
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.
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.
The forests are typically dominated by white oak (Quercus alba), southern red oak (Quercus falcata), chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), with lesser amounts of red maple (Acer rubrum), pignut hickory (Carya glabra), and mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa).
Carya ovalis has also been treated as an interspecific hybrid between C. glabra and C. ovata. C. ovalis was accepted as a polymorphic species especially variable in size and shape of its nuts and is possibly a hybrid. The relationships may be more complex after a long and reticulate phylogeny, according to detailed chemical analyses of hickory ...