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Article: Shagbark hickory: neglected nut of the central woodlands.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The black walnut, Juglans nigra, is a tree famous for its nuts, which are harvested en masse each October. (Recently in Missouri there was a black walnut frenzy, as the nuts' price rose over 25% in one year.) Yet there is little public interest in another member of the juglandaceous family, the shagbark hickory.
While the black walnut trees are surrounded by nut pickers scrambling to get every nut, the shagbark hickory lives a quiet life in moist and somewhat open areas. (Alexander Martin writes that it "prefers moist soil and is often found with oaks in open woods.") Unlike the aforementioned walnut, the hickory nut is not flocked to by nutpickers. There is much ...