Elisa, The leaves look like pignut. Bitternut competes best on moist, rich sites, so coves and floodplains are its typical habitat.
Jess On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Elisa Campbell<[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > today, on a hike up Bare Mountain in Hadley, MA, I saw a small hickory > tree in a stunted condition. > Bare Mtn is basalt, and it's called Bare Mtn because the top has stunted > trees and grass - little soil, winds, and baking heat from the sun. > Anyway, we saw this small hickory, and can't decide whether it's Pignut > (our guess) or Bitternut. Attached are some pictures; what do you think? > (the ring in some pictures was my device for giving some scale; it's > about a size 4 or 4 1/2). > > Elisa > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
