Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape
Carya cordiformis ~ Bitternut Hickory-ServeScape

Bitternut Hickory

Carya cordiformis

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  • Delivery ONLY to Metro Atlanta & Athens within 5-7 business days
  • Pickup in 3-5 business days from our Switchyard in Chamblee
           (Mon & Fri 3pm-6pm - 3708 N Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA)
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Planning to install this tree yourself? We recommend a size 15 Gallon or smaller for do it yourself installations. These small sizes do not require any offloading equipment!
Trees that are sized by height or caliper are delivered with a large root ball wrapped in burlap. They require heavy equipment to install. We recommend working with a contractor for installation! They can also provide the equipment necessary for offloading the tree upon delivery. We will coordinate delivery with you so that your contractor has equipment ready upon your trees arrival! OR check the box below for ServeScape to provide offloading equipment for an additional fee.

Bitternut Hickory is a broadly-columnar native deciduous tree with an irregular oval-round crown and bark that develops ridges as it ages.  The medium green compound leaves turn yellow in fall, and the winter buds for the leaves are a showy mustard yellow.  Non-showy gendered spring catkins can give way to husked nuts, but only starts producing after 30 years of age.  Grows best in full sun and rich, moist to wet well-drained soils.  Generally intolerant of shade.  Bitternut is late to leaf and early to loose the leaves in fall.

Carya cordiformis is a host plant for several moths and butterflies including the Banded hairstreak butterfly, Luna Moth, and the Hickory Horned Devil.

Type: 

Tree

Origins:

Eastern N. America; GA Native

Height: 

50’ - 80’ 

Spread: 

30’ - 50’

Spacing: 

40’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

4 - 9

Culture: 

Full Sun, Part Sun

Bloom Color: 

Green

Season of Interest: 

Fall, Year-Round

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance.  Difficult to transplant due to taproot.  Large trees can produce considerable litter with twigs, leaves, and nuts.   No serious disease or pests.  Hickory bark beetle, pecan weevil, borers and twig girdler can be problems in some areas. White heart rot, anthracnose, leaf blotch, powdery mildew, leaf spot, cankers, catkin blight, crown gall and scab are occasional diseases.

LANDSCAPE USES: Specimen planting or mass plantings, Woodland Garden, Naturalized Areas, Native Garden, and Shade Tree.

COMPANION PLANTS: Yellow Birch, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Bottlebrush Buckeye

IMAGES: Plant Image Library from Boston, USA, Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) (37064132791), CC BY-SA 2.0, (2) Plant Image Library from Boston, USA, Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) (33645993593), CC BY-SA 2.0, (3) photost by Leonora (Ellie) Enking, (1) Carya cordiformis (Bitter Nut), (2) Autumn colour

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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