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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Pignuts (thin shelled with very bitter nuts)

Young pignut hickories ready to go forth and multiply.


HatTip: Bobal, aka al-bob and of recent, Bard-I-Ho

Definitions of 'bitter pignut'

1. (noun) bitternut, bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis
hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts.