So whenever I find a non-Shagbark hickory I can't tell what it is. This time I took as detailed pics as I could which I included in two posts.
Any ID tips for pignut, mockernut, and bitternut would be appreciated. :)
Hickory Lesson Needed
Better set of images, but to do EVEN better: take a sample of the plant to where you can get good clear closeups of all the parts - like dormant buds, the full compound leaf front and back, etc. Buds are usually very good ways to separate plants within a genus that are otherwise pretty similar from a distance. In all your images, it was hard to make out a bud very clearly. Sometimes it is hairiness of leaf petioles and rachis, or hairs in (or absent from) the vein axils on the undersides of leaf surfaces.
I think the small elongate sulfur yellow buds are your key feature, along with the small nut and number of leaflets on the compound foliage.
Compare with Carya cordiformis - Bitternut Hickory.
As always, thanks VV!
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