What is a pignut? That is exactly what my friend Lee asked when I posted this on facebook! ha! I asked Granny and she said that they were really bitter and since we couldn't eat them the farmers fed them to their pigs. I decided to google it of course - because that's what I do. haha! I found a bit more info:
The fruit is a peach-shaped nut that is 1 ¼" long. It is thick walled, unridged, and encased in a thin husk that only splits half way open. On the inside of fallen nuts, when split open, resemble the snout of a pig.
The pignut hickory nuts are important in the diets of squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, black bears, foxes, rabbits, birds, smaller rodents, and whitetail deer.
Interesting. She did have something about a pig in there!!! hehe!!
She ran around, got Lucky kisses and took a stroll in the wagon...
The dogs of the hood. The boxer is Lucky and yellow lab is Phoebe. And of course our loves Marley and Kona.
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