tree ID please

[blackhawk]

Not sure about the smell you describe,and I ain't smelling your small nuts either

[soy]

that's a shame blackhawk because I was fully prepared to send you a sack of Nuts to smell....they smell good enough to eat...all fun aside they really do

[DavidV]

lmao....

Soy, the Bitternut around here has nuts like that but the bark is smoother/tighter. I think tree in the picture is pignut though.

[soy]

Thanks david

[Jim Davis]

I've lived here in western Kentucky for 3-1/2 years now. On my 40 acres there are shagbark, shellbark, pignut, bitternut and mockernut hickories.

That tree is definitely NOT a shagbark or shell bark. I think the bark is atypical of any of the hickories on my place, BUT, the leaves and fruit are definitely pignut.

Great news is, pignut is the strongest of the hickories.

Jim Davis