Plant Information

Common Name: TREE - PECAN NUT
Scientific Name: Carya illinoinensis

N/A

R300.00

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Description

• Perennial
• Pecan nut is a hardy tree up to 40m.
• It bears inconspicuous, wind pollinated flowers.
• Numerous tiny male flowers are borne in pendulous, three-branched catkins, while the slightly larger female flowers are aranged in small groups of up to ten in erect spikes.
• When mature, the green, fleshy fruit split open to reveal a smooth, brown, thin-shelled, single-seeded nut inside.
• Once established it is draught and cold tolerant.

Culinary Uses

• The nuts are eaten raw or roasted and salted.
• Popular as an ingredient of ice cream, confectionery, biscuits, cakes, breads and pecan pie.

Parts Used

• The ripe seed - a bilobed brown nut.

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