Need help identifying

[huntfishwork]

Trying to figure out what I’ve got here. The tree looks like a walnut but nothing on the ground including the rotten nuts were very big like a black walnut. The picture is how it fell off the tree and what’s inside the hull. Thanks for the help.

 

[watermedic]

Hickory?

 

[huntfishwork]

Probably so. I guess the bark on the tree didn’t seem shaggy enough for a hickory. Thought I found something worth picking up but I guess not.

 

[Nicodemus]

Looks like a pignut hickory to me.

 

[westcobbdog]

Pignut hickory

 

[NCHillbilly]

Probably so. I guess the bark on the tree didn’t seem shaggy enough for a hickory. Thought I found something worth picking up but I guess not.

There are scads of hickory species, and only a very few of them actually have shaggy bark. Mockernuts and pignuts, two of the most common hickory species, can have quite smooth bark.

 

[JustUs4All]

Shag barks are scarce around my area. Most hickory is smooth barked here.

 

[Duff]

Looks like a pignut hickory to me.

Yep. I've got one on the edge of my yard. That joker is loaded every year. It's like my lawnmower is on marbles.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

It's easy to tell by the smell, crush a leaf, peel some bark off a limb, or skin the one you found .