FORESTRY FOR 4-H CLUBS' 



One Hundred Eastern Forest Trees — Continued 



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Name 



83. Kentucky coffeetree (Gym- 

 nocladus dioicus). 



84. Pecan (Hicoria pecan) 



85. Bitternut hickory (Hicoria 



cordiformis). 



86. Water hickory (Hicoria 



aquatic a). 



87. Shagbark hickory {Hicoria 



ovata). 



88. Shellbark hickory {Hicoria 



laciniosa). 



89. Mockernut hickory {Hic- 



oria alba). (Known also 

 as bigbud or white 

 hickory.) 



90. Pignut hickory (Hicoria 



glabra). 



91. Black walnut (Juglans 



nigra). 



92. Butternut (Juglans cinerea) 



Distribution 



Mainly in Ohio and Missis- 

 sippi Valley. 



Mississippi Valley. 



Eastern United States. 



94. Red ash (Fraxinus pennsyl- 

 vanica). 



95. Green ash (Fraxinus penn- 

 sylvanica lanceolata). 



Gulf States and Lower Mis- 

 sissippi Valley. 



Eastern United States ex- 

 clusive of southern coast- 

 al region. 



Eastern United States, ex- 

 clusive of New England. 



Eastern United States 



do. 



do 



do. 



93. White ash (Fraxinus ameri- do. 



cana). 



..do. 



Eastern United States; west 

 in the Rocky Mountain 

 region. 



Charact 



Leaves doubly compound, the 

 pointed leaflets with entire mar- 

 gins; fruit a large, woody, wide 

 pod, 6 to 10 inches long, \\{ to 2 

 inches wide containing a greenish 

 jelly, which is poisonous. Trees 

 without thorns. 



Bud scales few, shell of nut thin, 

 husk wing-ridged, with large cavi- 

 ties; nuts elongated with sweet 

 kernel. 



Nut broader than long, without 

 angles, very thin shelled; bitter 

 kernel, husk thin. 



Nut broad, with bitter kernel. 



Buds with many scales (all of the 

 preceding hickories have buds with 

 few scales); bark loosening from 

 trees in shaggy strips. 



Leaves large; large, angled, thick- 

 shelled nuts with thick husks split- 

 ting to the base; bark shaggy. 



Leaves large, hairy; buds large, bud- 

 scales many; bark closely fur- 

 rowed, not separating from the 

 trunk. Nut with thick husk, 

 large, angled, thick-shelled. 



Leaves small, smooth; fruit abruptly 

 tapering at base to thick stem 

 (resembling a small fig); husk 

 barely splitting at top end and 

 usually retaining the nut. 



Leaves compound with "oothed 

 edges; spherical fruit growing 

 singly or in pairs; bark brown, 

 furrowed. 



Leaves compound, with toothed 

 edges; fruit in hanging clusters of 

 3 to 5, pointed and elongated, with 

 viscid hairs when young. Velvety 

 cushion just above leaf-scar; bark 

 gray and smooth on young trees. 



Smooth twigs, opposite; leaves com- 

 pound, leaflets toothed or wavy on 

 the margins and paler beneath; 

 seed with a plump, well-rounded 

 body and a wing extending almost 

 entirely from the end and borne 

 in dense clusters. High-ground 

 tree. 



Differs from white ash in having 

 young twigs and leaflets (beneath) 

 velvety; and wing of seed extend- 

 ing down along sides of seed body, 

 which is narrow. A low-ground 

 tree. 



Like the preceding, except twigs are 

 smooth, leaflets sharply toothed; 

 body of seed and pointed wing 

 very narrow. Low-ground tree. 



