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Big shellbark

noun

Hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut. Synonyms: big shagbark, big shellbark hickory, Carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory.

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... Nutt. (BIG SHELLBARK. KINGNUT.) Leaflets 7 to 9, obovate-acuminate, sharply serrate, the odd one attenuate at base and nearly sessile; downy beneath (more so than Carya alba). Fruit large, oval, 4-ribbed above the middle, with 4 intervening depressions. Husk very thick, entirely separating into 4 valves. ...

— Trees of the Northern United States - Their Study, Description and Determination • Austin C. Apgar

... see the size of some of these things. There are hickory nuts 1-1/4 inch long and there are shagbarks as full of meat as pecans and probably quite as good. There are in Kentucky, I am told, hickory nuts that you can take in your fingers and crush. Here we have the pecan, this great big shellbark from Indiana, the shagbark from the North, and the thin shell nuts from Kentucky. Now hybridize these and I think, if you work at it long enough, you will get a tree that will have all those ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

Words linked to "Big shellbark" : king nut hickory, hickory nut, Carya, hickory, genus Carya, hickory tree