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PRODUCT!
| Hickory
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are about 30 m (about 100 ft) tall, often grows among oaks in dry
uplands, and have long taproots. Their leaves are compound, with from 3
to 17 leaflets that turn bright yellow in autumn. Each tree has male and
female flowers, the male found along the stem in hanging, three-branched
catkins and the female found at the twig ends in small, petal less
clusters. The usually hard-shelled nuts, 2.5 to 5 cm (1 to 2 in) in
diameter, are enclosed in fleshy husks that dry and split into quarters.
The species
that bear large, sweet, edible nuts commonly gathered in the wild include the
shagbark, the shellbark, the mockernut, and the wild pecan hickory. Other
species bear nuts that are too small to be of value, or that have kernels with
skin coverings containing tannin, giving them a bitter taste. Hickories are also
valued for their tough, hard wood, which is used for tool handles, sports
equipment, and furniture, and as fuel and a smoke wood for meats. |
 AROMA /SMOKING ASPECTS: Hickory
is used primarily with beef, pork and wild game. It's a very popular
smoking and aromic wood . It gives off a smell of an outdoor B-B-Q
cooking. Very pleasant.
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