Black Hickory

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 1/2 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 1/2 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