Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Of the dozen or so American hickories, shellbark and shagbark hickory trees ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — Shen Ailan and her husband Xiang Chaochun stand on the branches of gently swaying hickory trees, wielding long bamboo sticks. The pair look as if they could be from the film ...

Hickories have compound leaves with one stem and many leaflets. The green husk around the nut turns brown as it dries and can then be peeled away to expose the nut inside. (Clay Wollney) The nuts ...

A hickory nut pie made by Carlotta Abbott of Lexington. Abbott uses a basic Karo syrup pie recipe but with dark syrup and brown sugar for more flavor. Charles Bertram cbertram@herald-leader.com ...

I was walking the trails at York Land Trusts’ Hilton Farm last week. There is a beautiful spot there where the sun glints off the river and floods the woods with light. On that particular day the sun ...

Hickory nuts are oval-shaped, light-tan nuts found inside of larger, darker hulls. The tree's fall leaf color is a rich gold. Q: My neighbor has this tree that I think is a hickory. Some of the ...

Both humans and wildlife are busy foraging this first month of autumn for a tough nut to crack — Wisconsin’s flavorful hickory nut. Champions of this oft-overlooked edible know just where to go ...

The hickory genus, Carya, includes one of the tastiest nuts-the pecan, and one of the most inedible-the bitternut hickory. But it’s the distinctive shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, that I want to talk ...

KEYSVILLE – As children, my brother and sisters and I were taken on a yearly nut-gathering expedition to this northwest Carroll community. There, in a picnic grounds directly across the road from my ...

I was walking the trails at the Great Bay Wildlife Refuge in Newington, N.H. last week. There is a beautiful spot there where the sun glints off of Great Bay and floods the woods with light. On that ...

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