Hickory, including pignut and shagbark, do shed bark and nuts. When I go through my yard, I have found some of the round nut pickers seem to help pick up the nuts.

Its alternately held leaves are typically five leaflets, but may be seven leaflets, sometimes held on the same tree. The bark typically has long, running ridges that are medium or dark gray in color.

In this edition of ID That Tree, learn how to tell Red Hickory apart from its cousins shellbark, shagbark and pignut hickory. Located typically in upland dry sites, red hickory stands out with ...

A volunteer hickory is growing in my backyard. No human planted it. Likely a squirrelly did the delightful deed. The rodent buried it where sun-loving prairie plants were growing, which means as th… ...

Object Details Description The pignut hickory is a native tree which gained its common name when early settlers to the US saw that pigs happily ate its nuts. While pignuts are edible, they are more ...

“When we started out, we would go into the woods ourselves to harvest bark,” says Travis. Unlike with maple syrup, where a hole is drilled into a maple tree to extract its sap, hickory syrup is made ...

To make the syrup, owner Tom "Razz" Radzwich collected bark from farms and while out hiking, and here was Drewes, with 250 shagbark hickory trees on his property in Mifflintown, Juniata County.