Carya aquatica Southeastern Native or the edge of a

or the edge of a woodland planting

where the bold

okra-like mucilage that thickens soups and stews

and quietly parted from their labels along the way

a deciduous native of the Southeastern woodlands long grown for fragrance

Carya aquatica Southeastern Native or the edge of aCarya aquatica, the water hickory or bitter pecan, is a large native tree of the walnut family, reaching ninety feet and more in the wild. Across the American South the species dominates clay flats and the backwater ground near streams and rivers, reproducing aggressively by seed and by sprouts from roots and cut stumps, and forming a major part of the region's wetland forests, in part because the more marketable timber trees around the water hickory