Shagbark Hickory – 5 pack of trees

Description

Save with the 5 pack of trees!

(Carya ovata) This is the hickory with bark that peels in long, tough curls off the straigt trunk. It is a large tree growing 60-80 ft., and sometimes reaching 150 ft. in height. The tree maintains its central stem high into the narrow, oblong crown. The bright, yellow-green, pinnately-compound leaves become golden in early fall, eventually drying to a warm bronze. The thick-shelled hickory nuts are edible. Wild trees and improved cultivated varieties produce commercial hickory nuts. Carolina Hickory (var. australis (Ashe) Little), a variety found in southeastern mountains, has small lance-shaped leaflets and small nuts. The name “hickory” is from pawcohiccora, an Algonquian word for the oily food removed from pounded kernels steeped in boiling water. This sweet hickory milk was used in cooking corn cakes and hominy. Pioneers made a yellow dye from the inner bark. The fuel value of Shagbark is higher than that of any other North American wood except Locust. A cord of Hickory is almost the equivalent in thermal units of a ton of anthracite, and even today costs less. Zone: 4-8. Mature Height: 70-90’. Soil: well-drained, moist to dry woodland soils. Sunlight: Full to partial sun. Squirrels and birds relish the seeds and catkins, bats often use as habitat. Fruit-birds, Fruit-mammals, Nesting site, Cover, Substrate-insectivorous birds.

We do not offer shipping. You MUST pick up your order at Green Mountain Orchards in Putney, VT on Saturday, May 2.