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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • ^fe=<«^-s -e> -£$p-3«t>- ST TREES -e>-££%=> «£i>- BITTERNUT HICKORY (Hicoria minima Britton) (Carya cordifonnis K. Koch) THE bitternut hickory is a tall slender tree with broadly pyramidal crown, attaining a height of 100 feet and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet. It is found throughout the State on moist rich soils, but is nowhere very abundant. The bark on the trunk is granite-gray, faintly tinged with yellow and less rough than in most of Twig, one-half natural size. BITTERNUT HICKORY. Leaf, one-third natural size. the hickories, yet broken into thin, plate-like scales. The winter buds are compressed, scurfy, bright yellow, quite different from those of its relatives. The leaves are alternate, compound, from 6 to 10 inches long, and composed of from 7 to 11 leaflets. The individual leaflets are smaller and more slender than those of the other hickories. The flowers are of two kinds on the same tree. The fruit is about 1 inch long and thin-husked, while the nut is usually thin-shelled and brittle, and the kernel very bitter. The wood is hard, strong and heavy, reddish brown in color. From this last fact it gets its local name of red hickory. It is said to be somewhat inferior to the other hickories, but is used for the same purposes. 351
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