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Characteristics
 Family-
Juglandaceae--The Walnut Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous tree to 60 feet; leaves alternate, once pinnately compound, with 5-9 leaflets, leaves bearing tiny yellow-golden scales; flowers April to May as leaves unfold, male flowers in drooping clusters, female flowers resembling tiny nuts, at tips of new growth; fruit maturing in fall, nuts in tough, splitting husks.
- Ornamental Characteristics
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Hickories have beautiful yellow fall color. Nutmeg hickory has attractive whitish bark.
- Landscape Use
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Specimen or shade tree.
- Horticultural Cultivars
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None.
- Availability/Propagation
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Not available in nurseries. Propagate from seed.
- Culture
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Preserve in landscape if it is found on the property. Nutmeg hickory is a rare tree.
- Coastal Ecology
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Nutmeg hickory is a rare tree, found growing in North Carolina only on the moist, rich, alkaline, shell filled soils around Calabash in Brunswick County, and farther south into Berkeley and Charleston counties in South Carolina.
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