Oh Nuts!

Where would you go looking for nuts in the summertime? Well, up a tree and out on a limb of course.

I know. Bad joke.

You won't find any good nuts laying on the ground in the woods this time of year. The nuts are still growing high in the trees. A good way to get a close look at them is to take your camera up a tree using a portable deer stand.

The nuts I show you here are hickory nuts. There are maybe a half dozen different kinds of hickory trees in the Southeast Missouri hardwood forest. I believe these nuts are from the relatively common pignut hickory tree. The actual nut is inside a thin husk that will dry and peel off in four sections when the nut becomes mature in autumn.