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What is a bitternut?

What is a bitternut? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
  2. Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.
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I have some hickories growing and fruiting well on bitternut.
I have thirty-two crosses between the bitternut hickory and our common butternut, growing.
There is also a variety of bitternut from Iowa known as Cedar Rapids, but the two are quite unlike and should not be confused.
Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds.
I don't think I have ever seen a hickory nut tree so loaded with nuts as a Manahan which I have grafted on bitternut.
The bitternut, or Swamp Hickory, has a kernel which is very bitter.

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