Pecan
The pecan (Carya illinoinensis) is a species of hickory nut, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky, North Carolina and western Tennessee, south through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracruz.
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| Carya illinoinensis | |
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| Species: | C. illinoinensis
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| Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh.) K.Koch
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"Pecan" is from an Algonquian word, meaning a nut requiring a stone to crack.[1]
Pecans are often used in cooking in the Southern United States. A common dessert there is pecan pie.
Pecan Media
A cluster of pecan fruit is exposed as hulls dry out and split open
Pecan sprouting in moist wood-chip mulch in Eastern Oklahoma
Pecan halves from South Georgia, with a centimeter scale
Half of a homemade pecan pie in a glass baking dish, served at a Thanksgiving dinner in the United States.
Carya illinoinensis, bud. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, accession #658-2010*A.
Pecan beginning to germinate
This is a cluster of young pecans on an Adams #5 tree showing leaves and nuts on the tree. Nuts are at the water stage of maturity.
Picture of ripe pecan-nuts photographed in Hadera, Israel.
Shelled and unshelled pecans
References
- ↑ "History of Pecans". U.S. Pecans. Archived from the original on 2021-03-25. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
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Wikispecies has information on: Carya illinoinensis. |