Sun: full sun

Soil: ideally deep, fertile, moist soils; wet bottomlands; drought tolerant

Growth rate: slow (less than 1 ft/yr)

Mature size: 60-80 ft. height, 40 ft. spread

Landscape use: edible landscape, shade

Fruit: produces the largest of all hickory nuts, sweet, produces in 10-12 years, bearing annually 

Flower: catkins

Fall color: colors all at once include orange, yellow, green, brown

Seasonal interest: shaggy bark, straight trunk with high branches; fall color is multicolored

Sustaining wildlife: host plant to 234 species of butterflies and moths including Tuliptree Silkmoth and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail; leaves and nuts eaten by birds and browsers

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