. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11. Forests and forestry. 110 m BITTER NUT HICKORY. Carya cordiformis, (Wangenheim) K. Koch. rORM_A rather large tree usually 50-75 ft. high with a diameter of 1-2 ft but may reach » hef^frof Cft with a diameter of 2i-3 feet. Trunk long, clean, with little taper. Crown rounltpped Sroadelt near top. rather shallow In forest grown specimens. Lateral branches stout and ascending, often with semi-pendulous branchlets. BARK-Light gray, rather thin, roughened by shallow fissures and narrow midges; tight- fltfitg^7d does not 'peel off or shag off
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11. Forests and forestry. 110 m BITTER NUT HICKORY. Carya cordiformis, (Wangenheim) K. Koch. rORM_A rather large tree usually 50-75 ft. high with a diameter of 1-2 ft but may reach » hef^frof Cft with a diameter of 2i-3 feet. Trunk long, clean, with little taper. Crown rounltpped Sroadelt near top. rather shallow In forest grown specimens. Lateral branches stout and ascending, often with semi-pendulous branchlets. BARK-Light gray, rather thin, roughened by shallow fissures and narrow midges; tight- fltfitg^7d does not 'peel off or shag off in loos: scales like the Shag-bark Hickory. See 91. TWiOS-Slender smooth, glossy, often ycllcw-glandiflar and hairy towards apex, grayish or oTangt;;?own o; reddTsh roughened with numerous pale and longitudinally-elongated ; pith brown, angular. BTTDS-Alternate covered by 4 yellowish, glandular-dotted scales occurring in valvate pairs Term?n^ bunvldentl^^^^ blunt-pointed. lateral buds usually «"Perposf^ Jhe lowest "fr axillary'one usually small and sharp-pointed; the upper one larger, evidently- stalked and angular. i LEAVES-Altemate compound, with 7-11 leaflets, 6-10 Inches long. Leaflets lanceolate to oval llnc^lttT late al ones sessile, sharp-pointed at apex, finely toothed on margin, obliquely Upering or liea'rt shaped at base; when mature dark yellowish-green above, paler below. LEAF-SCARS-Alternate, large, conspicuous, raised, ^^^^'â '''^^^^^'^ '^'^^^^^^^ lighter than twigs, containing numerous bundle-scars arranged in 3 groups or in a single curved line or occasionally scattered irregularly over whole scar. FLOWEKS-Appear about May when leave, are half-developed. ^taminate and pistillate flowers separate Staminate green and arranged in triple-clustered aments about 3-4 Inches fong!pi8tmate!" and small clusters on the new giowth about i of an inch long, somewhat angled and fcurfy-halry. FRTIIT-Matures about October; spherical to obovate
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