Pignut Hickory - Carya glabra

Juglandaceae - Walnut Family
"A Year With the Trees" - Tree Number 52
Pignut Hickory
Carya glabra


Spring

Pignut Hickory a photo by homeredwardprice on Flickr
Some new Spring leaves on a Pignut Hickory tree.

A Pignut Hickory tree at the Asheville Botanical Gardens.
http://ashevillebotanicalgardens.org

Summer

The Pignut Hickory leaves

Pignut Hickory

Fall

On every walk you take, on every day, be still, listen, look around you; what can you learn from nature today? Be observant.

Carya Glabra, Pignut Hickory in the Fall

The Pignut Hickory nut

The Pignut Hickory Tree

A Pignut Hickory Tree Bud

Autumn is in the air, the light, the sounds, and even the smells.  The air is cooler, the light is the light of fall.  It is intense, clear and almost yellow. The sounds are of wind in the leaves, acorns falling, and insects chirping. The smell? Perhaps it is the smell of leaves going back to the earth.

How does the Pignut Hickory look in the fall as compared to the summer? to the spring? The now brown nuts are falling off the tree, the leaves are getting browner and have an older look about them.

This tree smells of Fall as it stands in the bright light of a cool September day.

Winter

Pignut Hickory in Winter

Pignut Hickory Bark

Champion Pignut Hickory Tree

A champion Pignut Hickory tree is on St. Simon Island, it is 105 feet tall and it has a diameter of 5'4".



For the love of the trees,
Becky