The rare Mockernut Hickory can grow to huge dimensions in this area. The largest one I have seen is unfortunately just south of my southern boundary. The title picture above shows the beautiful canopy of this tree. The Mockernut Hickory is distinctive from the other two Hickory species on my land via the tighter bark, often with diamond-shaped ridges, fuzzy petioles, and leaves which often have nine leaflets. My largest Mockernut Hickory grows just north of the primitive driveway in Lot A. Its circumference at chest height is 6 ft, 4 inches.
There is one specimen just below the old logging road terminus which sits in the NE corner of Lot A. Circumference at chest height is 5ft 10".
The first picture below is of a largish specimen in the middle of the acidic cove forest basin in Lot A (circumference 5ft 5") - the Mockernut Hickory tree to its left is dead. The second picture below is of a slightly smaller specimen (circumference 5ft 0.75") close to the SE corner of Lot A - this one produced a prolific crop of nuts in 2021.
Just upslope to the north of the specimen above in the acidic cove forest, is a larger specimen, circumference 6ft 1.25".
Although not positively identified via husks on the ground, this tree in the NE section of Lot C, in the rhododendron thicket, looks very much like a Mockernut Hickory.
The first picture below shows Mockernut Hickory fruit with their characteristic thick husks. A comparison with other hickory fruit is shown in the second picture.