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40 - 60 (feet)

30 - 50 (feet)

Rounded form with wide-spreading crown; ridged gray bark; clusters of fruit in hairy, sticky case; nuts are edible; leaves are pinnately compound with 11 to 19 leaflets; yellow fall color.

Susceptible to canker; roots produce chemical that is toxic to some plants (allelopathic). May not reach this height in Alaska. May die back to shrub form in SC.

SC, SE (Zone 3)

Eastern half of United States and Canada