Hello if anyone is in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, and you use iNaturalist, can you please go to the Littlestown Park (it’s at the pool) and take pictures of the hickory trees? I moved away from Littlestown years ago and now I live all the way down in Georgia and if I had any old pictures of the trees, I can’t find them now, and there arent many people in Littlestown that are active on iNaturalist already

Here’s the google earth link that shows the park, and it’s literally just called “Littlestown Park” so you can just type that into your GPS.

Here’s where the trees are, they’re along the smaller creek before it curves into the woods. There are also some up in the woods, but I don’t know their exact locations.

There are also a bunch of black walnut trees mixed in with the hickories, so if you could get pictures of them too, that’d be awesome! 

You could either post them to iNaturalist yourself (which I encourage because you should get the credit and also iNaturalist is fun) or just @ me and I’ll post them. 

[ID: A satellite view of Littlestown Park in the winter, showing dark grey-green grass and bare trees. There is a pool in the upper edge of the picture, with a parking lot curving around it, a baseball field, and a creek that leads into a small pond that is bordered by a forest labeled “Piney Creek”. A white square has been drawn on the map over part of the creek with a few trees around it, with an arrow that labels the area, “shagbark hickories”. End ID.]

Before we moved all the way to Georgia I was at some point planning on bribing someone to drive me there so I could take pictures of them all myself, but that’s no longer possible, lol.

Shagbark hickories are really distinctive, they have grey bark that peels off really dramatically, hence the name “shagbark”. They produce large edible nuts, and at the point this post is being made (November 16th 2021), the nuts themselves might be mostly gone, but the shells should still be there. The nuts fall off the tree in husks that fall open in crescent-moon shaped seams, so you might find them scattered on the ground.

If you are able to go there to take pictures of the trees, please take pictures of the bark, any nuts or husks, and the leaves if possible.

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