One of my favorite fall wild edibles is a pain to crack open, but well worth the trouble. If you can break into the armored fortress that is a hickory nut, you won’t be disappointed. The fatty nut ...

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I took a close look at the pictures and saw a slightly pear-shaped ... This seems to have been a good season for hickory nuts. My yard has many of these nuts. The leaves seem to break down ...

Leaves are in clusters of seven to nine leaflets. Oval nuts have a five- to six-sectioned husk and are the largest of the hickory species. The mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa) reaches 50–60 ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Yellowbud hickory trees are abundant in Iowa’s forests, yet few make use of the trees’ bitter-tasting nuts. Levi Geyer, owner of Fancy Twig Farm in Parnell ...