name: Hickory Nut

flavor_db_name_variants: hickory nut

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Hickory nut

id: 377

name_scientific: Carya

description: Hickory (from Powhatan) is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya (Ancient Greek: κάρυον "nut"). The genus includes 17?19 species of deciduous trees with pinnately compound leaves and big nuts. Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India (State of Assam), 11 or 12 are from the United States, two to four are from Canada and four are found in Mexico. Hickory flowers are small, yellow-green catkins produced in spring. They are wind-pollinated and self-incompatible. The fruit is a globose or oval nut, 2-5 cm (0.79-1.97 in) long and 1.5-3 cm (0.59-1.18 in) diameter, enclosed in a four-valved husk, which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably C. illinoinensis; it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed germinates.

itis_id: 19223

wikipedia_id: Hickory_nut

picture_file_name: 382.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 52091

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:29:44.000Z

legacy_id: 409

food_group: Nuts

food_subgroup: Nuts

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:38.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:24.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 13402

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00377