{"id":2838,"date":"2012-10-21T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2012-01-31T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T00:41:56","slug":"pignut-hickory-what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/10\/21\/pignut-hickory-what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Pignut Hickory: What\u2019s In A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lovely Golden Yellow Fall Color of Pignut Hickory<\/p><\/div>\n

Pignut hickory (Carya glabra<\/em>) is a medium to large tree that\u00a0you may\u00a0fortunately inherit when purchasing property. Pignut deserves a better name like “smooth bark hickory\u201d. The species is commonly found in upland forests.<\/p>\n

Pignut hickory prefers fertile well-drained soil and in full sun to partial shade. A young seedling trees start off slowly from\u00a0a large taproot. This also makes\u00a0most hickory species difficult to transplant. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Pignut hickory grows 50 to 60 feet high by 25 to 35 feet wide, consisting of a long straight trunk,\u00a0ascending vase-shaped branching, and rounded canopy. The furrowed bark on the trunk is gray to grayish-brown which becomes moderately rough with age.<\/p>\n

The alternate pinnately compound leaves are 8 to 12 inches long , commonly 5 leaflets, sometimes 7. The medium green summer foliage turns deep golden yellow color in the fall. <\/strong>Short drooping male catkins flowers appear in mid to late April in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). Trees produce\u00a0large 1\u00bd to 2 inch long nuts which are bitter\u00a0tasting. Many small mammals rely on the pignut hickory for food and shelter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The wood is valued\u00a0in\u00a0furniture-making\u00a0and\u00a0in barbequing to capture the hickory flavor. While disease and pest problems are rarely serious, a number of butterfly larvae feed on\u00a0its dense compound foliage\u00a0in late summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pignut hickory (Carya glabra) is a medium to large tree that\u00a0you may\u00a0fortunately inherit when purchasing property. Pignut deserves a better name like “smooth bark hickory\u201d. The species is commonly found in upland forests. Pignut hickory prefers fertile well-drained soil and in full sun to partial shade. A young seedling trees start off slowly from\u00a0a large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[749,806,774,623,627,859,858,630,646,7,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}