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. |