Black Hickory

Carya texensis

Juglandacaeace (Walnut Family)

▲ mature tree with fall color

▲▼  leaves

▲ leaf, showing hairs on leaf rachis

▲▼  bark (furrowed, gray)

▲▼ fall color

▲▼ twigs and buds

 

▲ fruit

▲▼ black hickories in center of photos above and below, weathered big ice storm of 2007 pretty well

Location near campus:  Close Park, on south side of Lake Drummond

Cary texana: Black Hickory

·         leaves deciduous, alternate, pinnately compound with 5-9 leaflets, usually 7; leaflets 3-6" long and ½ as wide; often have tan to rust-colored hairs on leaf undersides; leaf rachis and petioles with coppery or tan hairs

·         grows 50-60' tall and about ½ as wide

·         smooth gray bark when young; diamond pattern ridges with age

·         nut is large, in pear-shaped 4-parted husk; nut itself is about 1" diameter and rounded

·         grows well in dry, infertile upland sites in Ozarks

·         medium to fast growth rate once established

·         native to Missouri & Ozarks