General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4b -31.7 °C (-25 °F) to -28.9 °C (-20 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 50 to 100 feet
Plant Spread: 50 to 75 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: Other: yellow-green
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Shade Tree
Useful for timber production
Edible Parts: Seeds or Nuts
Eating Methods: Cooked
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Monoecious
Parentage: Carya cordiformis x Carya illinoensis

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Common names
  • Bitternut Pecan
  • Hickory
  • Brown's Hican

Photo Gallery
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-11-13
fall color of part of crown
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-11-13
tree on end in full gold fall color
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-11-13
graft high up of Hican on Pecan
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-10-14
remnant of a nut tree nursery with this hybrid
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Oct 14, 2020 7:36 PM concerning plant:
    I've seen a few of this hybrid Bitternut Hickory x Pecan Hickory, often referred to as a Hican in a remnant of the old John Hershey Nursery that existed on the east side of Downingtown, Pennsylvania from 1921 until some years past 1967 when the owner died. They are the grafted scions upon Pecan rootstocks. They look more like the Pecan overall. The nuts are delicious, despite the Bitternut. The Bitternut's heredity gives the plant more cold hardiness than the Pecan.

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