Looks like walnuts to me. Shell is just not dried out yet.
LtButtermilch
It is a walnut
Cornflake294
Pignut hickory
Amesb34r
Definitely a hickory. Definitely not a walnut. The shape is very much like a Shagbark hickory but it may be another variety.
godofraincoats
Hickory! The four divisions in the shell casing/hull (can’t remember the fancy botany term right now) are the big giveaway. Not sure which species — options depend on where you are but I’d guess either shagbark or pignut.
awongbat
How did you crack it open? That’s a hickory nut and they are notoriously hard to open. IMO worst than Black Walnut. You can throw the whole nut without the husk on the grill coals for hickory smoked meat. The nut meat is good but so hard to open that I stopped trying to forge for them.
Hunter_Wild
Carya species, hickory.
ogold45
Would have to see the tree but either Shellbark(too dark/red for Shagbark) or Pignut. If they taste bitter it’s a Pignut.
A_Lountvink
Hickories are in the walnut family (Juglandaceae), with pecans (Carya illinoinensis) being the most popular species.
I have never seen a hickory, but heaps of regia walnuts, not so much nigra. At first look, the shape is identical to some of ours. But the strands of attachment on the pointy end of one is unfamiliar. And is that a stalk showing in the lower one? While some of our nuts are pointed, the ones in the photo show ridges?
Are there variations in hardness of hickory nuts? They do look too good not to eat. And people do eat macadamia nuts which must be equally challenging.
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these are walnuts
I’m pretty sure that’s a type of hickory
Looks like walnuts to me. Shell is just not dried out yet.
It is a walnut
Pignut hickory
Definitely a hickory. Definitely not a walnut. The shape is very much like a Shagbark hickory but it may be another variety.
Hickory! The four divisions in the shell casing/hull (can’t remember the fancy botany term right now) are the big giveaway. Not sure which species — options depend on where you are but I’d guess either shagbark or pignut.
How did you crack it open? That’s a hickory nut and they are notoriously hard to open. IMO worst than Black Walnut. You can throw the whole nut without the husk on the grill coals for hickory smoked meat. The nut meat is good but so hard to open that I stopped trying to forge for them.
Carya species, hickory.
Would have to see the tree but either Shellbark(too dark/red for Shagbark) or Pignut. If they taste bitter it’s a Pignut.
Hickories are in the walnut family (Juglandaceae), with pecans (Carya illinoinensis) being the most popular species.
They are delicious and super healthy
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I have never seen a hickory, but heaps of regia walnuts, not so much nigra. At first look, the shape is identical to some of ours. But the strands of attachment on the pointy end of one is unfamiliar. And is that a stalk showing in the lower one? While some of our nuts are pointed, the ones in the photo show ridges?
Are there variations in hardness of hickory nuts? They do look too good not to eat. And people do eat macadamia nuts which must be equally challenging.
Walnuts is what we called them