Tree/fruit ID help.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Pin oak tree 100%
Hog nut? most likely.
Look for a tree nearby that has leaves like a pecan tree.

Yep. That nut did not come off that tree (the big one in your pics)... might be one of the smaller ones in the pic. Don't take a very big pig nut tree to drop nuts... The pig nut tree will have leaves for the most part exactly like a pecan tree and the tree canopy will be shaped the same as well.

[GarGuy]

I have some very large trees on my land by the creek that im trying to figure out what they are. I showed these pictures to a tpwd biologist who wasn't sure what i have. I have found these nuts on the ground around the trees also. This one pictures had a round woody outer shell and the inside shell is hard as a rock. Any clue?

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That's a pig nut. Squirrels love them but they are so bitter you can't eat them.

[Kossetx]

my oaks get galls on them that look like that. I've slipped on them.

[McClain]

I first thought gall too, but can see the “peel” edges.

[RifleBowPistol]

Looks like a huge black hickory to me. We have a bunch, but none that big. Being down in a creek, I would bet the nuts are pretty good tasting. They are hard as hell to crack though. Some of the trees we have up on the top of the hill produce nuts that are not worth eating, either bitter tasting or very oily. The trees we have on the lower areas of the property, are very good tasting. Kind of Walnut or a pecan.

I spent a lot of time looking up trees a year and half ago, turns out we only have two types of Hickory trees in Texas the Mockernut in East Texas, then the Black Hickory in east Texas to central Texas.

[RifleBowPistol]

That outer husk, is not that bad to get off, very similar to a pecan husk, the nut inside is like a rock.

If you have ever read some of the stories about Davie Crocket, I think Sam Houston, ECT. They talk about eating hickory collecting and eating hickory nuts.

These are Black Hickory nuts, with the husk and without the husk.

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

Pecans are members of the hickory family. There are many varieties of hickory trees. They all have alternating leaves with one on the end. Some like pecans have small leaves and some can be very large. Pics don't load right now so I can't see what you have.

[GarGuy]

Pecans are members of the hickory family. There are many varieties of hickory trees. They all have alternating leaves with one on the end. Some like pecans have small leaves and some can be very large. Pics don't load right now so I can't see what you have.

Yep pig nut is in hickory family. Great bbq wood. Smells just like black hickory burning. There is also a shag bark hickory in east tx that wasn't mentioned above.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Yep pig nut is in hickory family. Great bbq wood. Smells just like black hickory burning. There is also a shag bark hickory in east tx that wasn't mentioned above.

The Shag bark ( or as most folks in East Texas call Scaly Bark Hickory) have the best nuts for eating. Back in the mid '80's a park ranger with the Big Thicket National Reserve discovered what was said to be the largest Shag bark Hickory ever found. He failed to get good coordinates on it and could not go back to it. Hunters in the Lance Rosier unit of the preserve were asked to document any big Shag bark's they found in the area to try to re-locate it... don't know if they every found the tree that ranger was looking to find again, but I gave him locations of a bunch of em up and down Little Pine Island Bayou (AKA Teal Creek)...


Hickory nuts are roughly round in shape, pecans are roughly oval and pig nuts are like a hickory nut but flattened out a bit like when it was growing and "soft" was mashed in a bit... That's the best way I can think of to describe them. Pig nuts are good mash for squirrels, but they are hard like hickory nuts and the meat inside is VERY bitter and not palatable at all.

[GarGuy]

The Shag bark ( or as most folks in East Texas call Scaly Bark Hickory) have the best nuts for eating. Back in the mid '80's a park ranger with the Big Thicket National Reserve discovered what was said to be the largest Shag bark Hickory ever found. He failed to get good coordinates on it and could not go back to it. Hunters in the Lance Rosier unit of the preserve were asked to document any big Shag bark's they found in the area to try to re-locate it... don't know if they every found the tree that ranger was looking to find again, but I gave him locations of a bunch of em up and down Little Pine Island Bayou (AKA Teal Creek)...


Hickory nuts are roughly round in shape, pecans are roughly oval and pig nuts are like a hickory nut but flattened out a bit like when it was growing and "soft" was mashed in a bit... That's the best way I can think of to describe them. Pig nuts are good mash for squirrels, but they are hard like hickory nuts and the meat inside is VERY bitter and not palatable at all.

Correct on all counts. We have some big scalybarks here. Rita got the two largest I knew of. Both were over 75ft tall.

[dpg481]

I think i will get a sample off the tree and take it to ag extension office here. The bottom where the creek is on my place has several of the very large trees. My plan is to get a dozer in and clean up about 30 acres that is full of undergrowth.

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[Greenheadless]

My plan is to get a dozer in and clean up about 30 acres that is full of undergrowth.

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Be careful around those big trees doing this, they sometimes do not react well to clearing.

[lovemylegacy]

Except for the leaves, it looks like a Hickory.