2. Bitternut hickory in Newton Newton is home to a giant bitternut hickory tree, also known as carya cordiformis. At 106 feet tall and nearly 9 feet wide, the tree can be found at the South Skunk ...

At some point over the winter a big limb fell from the bitternut hickory that stands outside the far corner of the vegetable garden. I don’t know why that limb (9-10 inches in diameter) came ...

The bitternut hickory produces a 1-inch nut that is not edible. This tree's mature form is shown. Better suited to larger landscapes a bitternut hickory can live to be 200 years old.

Starting in early spring, yellow-bellied sapsuckers tap into the bark of trees. Although they have been documented utilizing well over 200 different species, the ones with higher sugar content are ...

Shellback Hickory Dan Mullen / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa) is a shaggy gray-bark species. This hickory grows up to 75–100 feet tall and can be 50–75 feet wide.

Bark scorpions are attracted to areas with higher humidity levels, such as near water sources or moist areas around homes. “They're really attracted to kind of moist areas, places where there is ...

Why do trees have bark? Julien, age 6, Melbourne. This is a great question, Julien. We are so familiar with bark on trees, that most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of the most ...

Four species are less common or non-native: white oak, bitternut hickory, black cherry, and ponderosa pine. Two decades back, these southern seedlings likely would have struggled to flourish here.

This eight-year-old bitternut hickory, native to a milder climate to the south, is flourishing in northern Minnesota, notorious for long, intensely cold winters. Brian Palik / USDA Forest Service ...