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Same tree, but different angle. Would you please ID this tree. Thank you |
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| Hickory - young bark looks like the mockernut hickories around here |
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| Have any mature specimens around that might help in ID? For me, mature bark pics are the best for ID in hickories. Nut pics would also be helpful. This little thing has neither, right? John |
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| Thanks much. This seedling is one of the kind in my yard. No nut yet.. |
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| To me, the foliage looks much more like the leaves on my juvenile pecans than it does the foliage on the many volunteer hickories that the squirrels sow each year. Both are the same genus, obviously, but the foliage on pecans is somewhat more thin and graceful, a bit more walnut-like IMHO, and I kind of see this in your photo. But, really, you won't know until its much older and begins to bear. Could it possibly even be a hickory-pecan hybrid? A 'Hican' as they call them? Don't know, just guessing, I could be totally wrong, my experience with pecans is limited to the two small trees I planted in 2009 and 2010. |
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| I'd bet a Coke on mockernut hickory(C.tomentosa); but lacking a good look at buds and bark, pignut(C.glabra) and red(C.ovalis) are possibilities. Not pecan or hican, denni; those big, broad leaflets don't show up in most of the pecanxhickory crosses - they tend to be more slender and somewhat 'curved', like the pecan parent(though not all are so). |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 10, 11 at 15:04
| This seedling is one of the kind in my yard. ===>>> as they say.. the nut cant fall too far from the tree ... check other neighbors yards .... its not like those nuts will float on a breeze for miles ... mommas gotta be sitting there ... somewhere ... ken |
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| LOL ken.... geology could be all changed and challenged if this seedling plant indeed is one of the kind this this neighborhood. I compared the pictures of pecan, hickory, and pecanxhickory on google. The leaves on mine do look broader than pecan or pecanxhickory. Thanks |
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| Definitely a hickory and not a pecan. I'm not to good at distinguishing the type of hickory unless I'm looking at a full grown specimen though. |
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- Posted by treeguy123 AL 7a (My Page) on Thu, Oct 13, 11 at 21:57
| 100% it's a Hickory (Carya sp.), seedlings always have broader leaflets than large adult Hickory trees. We have those by the thousands here. If there is no adult Hickory by you, then it could have easily came from wildlife such as a squirrel that buried the Hickory nut. |
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