The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

It’s exciting to see the buds on trees swelling, each ready to burst into bloom with fresh flowers or foliage when Mother Nature says it’s time. Learning to recognize deciduous trees and shrubs when ...

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 ...

Bitternut hickory trees were one of the most important perennial staple food crops in the eastern U.S. for eight thousand years or more.

At some point over the winter a big limb fell from the bitternut hickory that stands outside the far corner of the vegetable garden. I don’t know why that limb (9-10 inches in diameter) came down; ...

When settlers arrived to farm around Chicago in the 1830s, they found rich woodlands of majestic oaks and scattered hickory trees. These trees had survived fires and storms and provided a bounty of ...

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 ...

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