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Carya sp.
Hickory flowers are small, yellow-green catkins produced in spring. They are wind-pollinated and self-incompatible. The fruit is a globose or oval nut, 2–5 cm long and 1.5–3 cm diameter, enclosed in a four-valved husk, which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably C. illinoinensis; it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed germinates.
Mixed woodlands
Possibly Pecan (C. illinoinensis) as the husks were quite thin.
6 Comments
Thanks Emma! Yes there were lots of hickories around & that's what I suspected but I couldn't find a matching photo when I searched!
looks like hickory.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=hickory+t...
Karen ,did this fall off a tree?I will research this. Don't hickory tees usually have string like structures hanging from them?
Thanks Sachin!
Emma, I will certainly join!
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Wonderful,