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What a great find! A devil's walking stick in bloom growing in woods uphill off the Boulder Trail in Turnipseed Nature Preserve in east Wake county. The blooms were very popular with swallowtail butterflies and wasps.

Very large and mature hickory tree growing along Neuse River Greenway path in east Wake county next to boardwalk bridge leading to the Poole Road canoe launch.
Compound leaves with leaflets occurring mostly in fives with basal pair of leaflets smaller than pair at terminal end. Lowest branches occur roughly 50 feet up in the air. Base of tree is covered in poison ivy.

One single plant, 1 meter high, at the edge of a forest. I assume the individual of Falcatifolium taxoides it was using as a host was the large one about 1.5 meters away, which was also the largest Falcatifolium I've seen yet (about 8" diameter trunk). Most have been scrawny. 600 m elevation.