Owner: UGA Botanical Garden
Nominated by: Jimmy Mock
Accessible: Yes, Shade Garden on path just west of main road to conservatory.
Coordinates: State Plane
GA West NAD83 (feet)
E: 2,533,825 N: 1,420,339
Notes: Red hickory is found occasionally throughout the hardwood forests of the southern piedmont. It is similar in appearance to both pig nut and shag bark hickory, such that "false shag bark hickory" is often used as a common name. The bark is the one visible clue in identification. In young trees, the bark is tight and similar to Pig Nut, but tends to shag with age, giving a shag bark/pig nut appearance (see bark illustration above). Like the other hickory's, the tree makes a good specimen tree where it has room to grow. The commercial uses of this species is the same as the other hickory's and in the timber business, little differentiation is made between them, and like the other hickory's, its use as a source of hard mast for wildlife is limited.
