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