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Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet 1826
Juglandaceae
(APG IV)pignut hickory, pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, broom hickory
Akzessionnummer: SP-LB-009-10152
Pflanzjahr: 2017
Taxon concept: The Plant List (2014), version 1.1
Distribution: native to the eastern United States and southeastern Canada
Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet - Accepted: Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Juglandaceae (APG III)
- Flowers
- monoecious
- Flower ecology
- wind-pollinated (anemophilous)
- Life form
- tree
- Foliage persistence
- deciduous
- Fruits
- nut fruit
- Fruit ecology
- gravity-dispersed (barochorous) and animal-dispersed (zoochorous)
- Soil conditions
- prefers light, well-drained, loamy soils
- Natural occurrence (habitat)
- mixed deciduous forests, oak-hickory forests, slope and cove forests
- Comment to ecology
- resistant to most herbicides
- Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
- temperate, mixed mesophytic deciduous forests
- Usage
- timber used for tool handles, for agricultural implements; edible seed; sap used as refreshing drink
Erhardt, W., Götz, E., Bödeker, N. & Seybold, S. (2008): Der große Zander. Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. Band 2. Arten und Sorten. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart (Hohenheim), 18. Aufl., 2103 S.; The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51;