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Carya tonkinensis

Carya tonkinensis
Photo: Musum national d'histoire naturelle (France), No restrictions
Family
Juglandaceae (Walnut family)
Grows as
Tree
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Assam to China (Yunnan, Guangxi) and N. Indo-China
Climate
subtropical

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Carya tonkinensis, the Vietnam hickory, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carya native to Assam in India, southern China, and northern Indochina. Local people harvest the wood for timber and furniture making, and collect the edible nuts for vegetable oil production.

Other Carya plants

Water hickory · Cathay Hickory · Bitternut hickory · Scrub hickory · Pignut hickory · Carya hunanensis · Pecan · Carya kweichowensis · Shellbark hickory · Nutmeg hickory · Red hickory · Shagbark hickory

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carya tonkinensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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