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'''Hickory''' is a common name for [[trees]] composing the [[genus]] '''''Carya''''', which includes around 18 species.<ref name=powo/> Five or six species are native to [[China]], [[Indochina]], and [[India]] ([[Assam]]), as many as twelve are native to the United States, four are found in [[Mexico]], and two to four are
Hickories are [[temperate forest]] trees with [[Pinnate|pinnately compound]] [[leaf|leaves]] and large [[nut (fruit)|nuts]]. Hickory [[flower]]s are small, yellow-green [[catkin]]s produced in spring. They are [[anemophily|wind-pollinated]] and [[Self-incompatibility in plants|self-incompatible]]. The [[fruit]] is a globose or oval nut, {{convert|2|–|5|cm|in|1|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|1.5|–|3|cm|in|1|abbr=on}} diameter, enclosed in a four-valved [[husk]], which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, and thin in a few, notably the pecan (''C. illinoinensis''); it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed [[germination|germinates]].
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