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What is a bitternut?

What is a bitternut? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
  2. Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.
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Mr. Jones has also had the experience of grafting the Vest hickory on the bitternut, had it bear in two years, and then die.
I don't think I have ever seen a hickory nut tree so loaded with nuts as a Manahan which I have grafted on bitternut.
The Pleas is a bitternut hybrid and has some bitterness in the kernel, but no more than the English walnut and people like it.
None of them that I have tried to graft will live on bitternut roots.
From the shape of the nut, I believe it has a trace of the bitternut hickory in its make-up.
The bitternut, or Swamp Hickory, has a kernel which is very bitter.

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