Shagbark hickory nuts have been referred to as the "black truffle" of the nut world, a real delicacy. They taste great, like a mix of walnut and pecan.

Aleta McKeage speaks about a shagbark hickory tree last month as she leads a tour of the City Park Arboretum in Belfast. Scientists are trying to find species that can survive in Maine as ...

May 27—The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District recently unveiled this year's focus of the Geauga County Big Tree Contest and is currently seeking nominations. This contest seeks to ...

The Rhode Island Tree Council has identified about 150 champion trees throughout the state. Here are a few you can marvel at.

“They’ll be slowly grilled over shagbark hickory and then coated in a reduction made from the shagbark,” Garwood says. “It’s almost like a tomato raisin.” ...

If you cannot see the forest for the trees, take heart. Geauga County wants to enlist you in its search for the region’s biggest shagbark hickory tree in a contest that runs through Sept. 8.

On April 25, the Avon-on-the-Lake Garden Club donated three Shagbark Hickory trees, and the city of Bay Village donated three Northern Catalpa trees that were planted along the park’s trails.

This article was originally published with the title “Growing Our Own Dates, Growing Shagbark Hickory for Profit, and more” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 115 No. 11 (September 1916), p ...

Is it smooth, deeply ridged, shaggy or peeling? Beech trees have very smooth bark, cottonwoods have deep grooves, and shagbark hickory trees have large peeling bark. Look closely at the bark color.

The Shagbark Trail features a magnificent hemlock grove, a rare and dramatic Dry Oak-Hickory-Hophornbeam savannah, a rich forest hardwood grove with both bitternut and shagbark hickory plus maidenhair ...

The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District recently unveiled this year’s focus of the Geauga County Big Tree Contest and is currently seeking nominations. This contest seeks to promote t… ...