Buffalo Nut (Pyrularia pubera)

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Buffalo Nut is a fairly common medium-sized, alternate-leaved, deciduous shrub in the sandalwood family.

Haywood Co., NC 5/9/08.

Spikes of greenish flowers appear in spring.

Haywood Co., NC 5/9/08.

	Buffalo Nut is parasitic on the roots of various broadleaf tree and shrub species. Clay Co. NC 5/14/05.
	Clay Co. NC 5/14/05.
	The flowers are 5-parted. The fruits are poisonous. Clay Co. NC 5/14/05.
	The fruit is an odd pear-shaped drupe. Buncombe Co., NC 7/8/06.
	Alleghany Co., NC 9/23/06.