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Title: Need Help Identifying Tree
Post by: ewhite2316 on June 23, 2018, 02:27:49 PM

I need help identifying a tall tree in the woods in my backyard in Indiana. The pods have a citrus smell and are falling now. The tree is too tall with no low branches to take a picture of a leave. Can anyone help?

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Title: Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
Post by: Southside on June 23, 2018, 02:49:22 PM

Can you get a picture of the bark?

Title: Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
Post by: DelawhereJoe on June 23, 2018, 03:03:16 PM

Does it have large heart shaped leaves or compound leaves ?

Title: Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
Post by: WDH on June 23, 2018, 08:25:26 PM

I believe that they are immature hickory nuts that have aborted. This is a very common occurrence to see these small, undeveloped hickory nuts in the heat of the summer. A bruised, green, hickory nut husk has a very strong, distinctive odor.

Title: Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
Post by: ewhite2316 on June 24, 2018, 10:38:46 AM

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This is the trunk of the tree and a BAD photo from the ground as there are no low branches. I also have a large black walnut 30 to 40 feet away and the pods may have blown from it ???

Title: Re: Need Help Identifying Tree
Post by: WDH on June 25, 2018, 07:54:09 AM

False pignut hickory, also called red hickory, Carya ovalis.

Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheet (http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=826)

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