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Pignut Hickory
This tree grows well in fairly rich, well drained to dry soils. The nuts of this particular hickory, unlike some of the others, are bitter and scarcely edible. The Pignut Hickory tree, Carya glabra, has medium green broad, flat leaves and firm, gray bark. Pignut Hickory trees, as with other hickories, has wood that is tough and strong. This shade tree turns a bright yellow for great fall color. It occurs with other hickories and with oaks, characteristically on hillsides and ridges. The bark may be marked in a sort of diamond pattern by shallow furrows and narrow ridges. The nuts they are an important food for squirrels and chipmunks and other wildlife. ... more information
Swamp Chestnut Oak Good seed crops occur at intervals of 3-5 years with poor to fair production in between. One of the important timber trees of the South, it grows on moist and wet loamy soils of bottom lands, along streams and borders of swamps. Swamp chestnut oak trees are well-formed and become quite large (80 feet tall) with a narrow crown. The high quality wood is used in all kinds of construction and for implements. Swamp chestnut oak trees are deciduous and have leaves that vary from four to eight inches in length, are downy beneath and turn a rich crimson in the fall. Swamp Chestnut Oak strongly prefers soils that are moist, permanently moist, or permanently wet, and tolerates standing water (as in periodically inundated floodplains) for several weeks at a time. The acorns are sweet and serve as food to wildlife. The Swamp Chestnut Oak tree, Quercus michauxii, is known also as a basket oak for the baskets made from its wood, and cow oak because cows eat the acorns. A good shade tree. |
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