Hickory (plant)

hickory
	Hickory ( Carya spec. )
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Beech-like (Fagales)
Family :	Walnut family (Juglandaceae)
Genre :	hickory
Scientific name
	Carya
	Nutt.

Hickory nut

Hickory

Hickory ( Carya ) is a genus of trees from the walnut family ( Juglandaceae ). Today the genus only occurs naturally in North America and East Asia , but has also been found in fossil flora from the Tertiary in Europe .

The hickory types have a very hard, resilient and durable wood. The wood is popular for making tool handles (e.g. hammers, hatchets), bows, drumsticks , lacrosse sticks and the like, and for a long time also for ramrods for muzzle-loaders . Hickory is also popular in North America for traditional barbecues . Until about the middle of the 20th century, skis and the shafts of baseball and golf clubs were made from hickory. The vintage variant of golf is therefore called hickory golf .

The expression hickory comes from the language of the Algonquian Indians, "pocohiquara" and was the name for a drink made from pressed hickory nuts. The distribution area of the North American hickory trees includes the east coast as well as the area of the Midwest. Hickory was already valued as a bow wood by the Indians of the eastern woodlands . It is still used today as a bow wood and is one of the best woods for this purpose.

Due to their robustness and resistance to drought, some hickory species are considered possible candidates for forest conversion due to climate change, despite their slow growth.

species

Hickory ( Carya Nutt. )

Water hickory nut ( Carya aquatica (F. Michx.) Elliott ): It is found in the central and southeastern United States.

Carya cathayensis coffin. : It occurs in the Chinese provinces of Anhui , Zhejiang , Jiangxi and Guizhou .

Bitter nut ( Carya cordiformis (Wangenh.) K. Koch )

Carya floridana coffin. : It occurs in Florida.

Piglet nut ( Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet )

Carya hunanensis W.C. Cheng & RH Chang : It occurs in the Chinese provinces of Hunan , Guizhou and Guangxi .

Pecan ( Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch )

Carya k Weichowensis Kuang & AM Lu : It occurs in the Chinese province of Guizhou .

King nut ( Carya laciniosa (F. Michx.) WPC Barton ): It is found in Ontario and in the central and eastern United States.

Nutmeg hickory nut ( Carya myristiciformis (F. Michx.) Elliott ): It is found in Oklahoma , the southern United States, and the Mexican state of Nuevo León .

Scaly bark hickory ( Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch ): It occurs in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Carya pallida (Ashe) Engl. & Graebn. : It occurs in the northern, central, and eastern United States.

Carya texana Buckley : It is found in the central and eastern United States.

Mocking Nut Hickory ( Carya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt. ): Found in the central and eastern United States.

Carya tonkinensis Lecomte : It occurs in Assam , Vietnam and in the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi .

reception

The seventh US president and founder of the US Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson , earned the nickname "Old Hickory" during the wars against the British and Native Americans.

In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Huck is regularly beaten with a hickory stick by his father .

The folk rock band The Byrds recorded a Gram Parsons composition called Hickory Wind for their first country album Sweetheart of the Rodeo .

literature

Peter Schütt (Hrsg.): Lexicon of forest botany . ecomed, Landsberg / Lech, 1992, ISBN 3-609-65800-2 , pp. 39-100.

Web links

Commons : Hickory - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Hickory - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Thomas Ihm: Hickory - A tree is rediscovered (25.3 MB), SWR2 knowledge from October 15, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ Schuppenrindenhickory (Carya ovata) as a tree and forest plant in climate change on www.klimawandelgehoelze.de .
↑ Organic farmer wants to counteract the dying of coniferous forests in: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung of October 17, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Carya in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Accessed December 31, 2016.

[1] Schuppenrindenhickory (Carya ovata) as a tree and forest plant in climate change on www.klimawandelgehoelze.de .

[2] Organic farmer wants to counteract the dying of coniferous forests in: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung of October 17, 2019.

[GRIN-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Carya in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Accessed December 31, 2016.