Carya aquatica Southeastern Native and free of catalpa's litter

and free of catalpa's litter

above all for healing wounds

and quietly parted from their labels along the way

A camellia passed hand to hand from a plantsman of that stature carries a provenance all its own

Carya aquatica Southeastern Native and free of catalpa's litterCarya 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