Water Hickory

Water Hickory is the hickory of the riverine swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, and floodplain edges of the southeastern coastal plain, native from Virginia to Florida and west to Illinois and Texas, where it grows alongside bald cypress, water tupelo, and swamp chestnut oak in the seasonally flooded alluvial soils of river terraces and floodplain edges. Its small, thin-shelled nuts are very bitter and not generally eaten by people, but they are an important food for wood ducks, squirrels, and wild turkeys in bottomland habitat — waterfowl consume large quantities of the nuts that fall into flooded bottomland pools in fall. Like all hickories, Water Hickory is slow-growing but extremely long-lived, with the deep taproot making transplanting nearly impossible after the first year of growth; direct-seed into the permanent planting site in fall for best results. Grow in moist to periodically flooded, rich, slightly acidic alluvial soil in full sun — the only hickory species reliably tolerant of extended seasonal flooding. Спосіб посадки: Посів у відкритий ґрунт Відстань між рослинами: 360–600 дюймів Висота: 480–840 дюймів Дні до схожості: 30–90 Температура ґрунту для схожості: 4–13°C

Water Hickory is the hickory of the riverine swamps, bottomland hardwood forests, and floodplain edges of the southeastern coastal plain, native from Virginia to Florida and west to Illinois and Texas, where it grows alongside bald cypress, water tupelo, and swamp chestnut oak in the seasonally flooded alluvial soils of river terraces and floodplain edges. Its small, thin-shelled nuts are very bitter and not generally eaten by people, but they are an important food for wood ducks, squirrels, and wild turkeys in bottomland habitat — waterfowl consume large quantities of the nuts that fall into flooded bottomland pools in fall. Like all hickories, Water Hickory is slow-growing but extremely long-lived, with the deep taproot making transplanting nearly impossible after the first year of growth; direct-seed into the permanent planting site in fall for best results. Grow in moist to periodically flooded, rich, slightly acidic alluvial soil in full sun — the only hickory species reliably tolerant of extended seasonal flooding. Спосіб посадки: Посів у відкритий ґрунт Відстань між рослинами: 360–600 дюймів Висота: 480–840 дюймів Дні до схожості: 30–90 Температура ґрунту для схожості: 4–13°C --- Час посадки: -6–-2 тижнів осіння посадка Direct sow fresh nuts in fall in moist to wet, slightly acidic, deep alluvial soil in full sun. Water Hickory is adapted to the seasonally flooded bottomlands and swamp edges of the Gulf Coast and should be sited in low-lying areas that experience periodic flooding.