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[Michael Nave <jmichaelnave@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for the info. If I lived in the midwest I would
want to plant some of these.


--- Chex <chex.rice@gmail.com> wrote:

> All of this talk about Pecan Trees has me wanting to
> share with you
> the fact that I live in close proximity to the
> northern most wild
> native stands of pecan in the world.  Just for the
> record, I believe
> it was Thomas Jefferson who named the pecan the
> "Illinois Nut" because
> that is where it is native to.  Pecan (Carya
> illinoinensis) trees were
> adapted to Georgia and are not native to there. 
> They are a
> Mississippi River Valley phenomenon from the Gulf of
> Mexico to almost
> as far north as Wisconsin's southern border.
> 
> Pecan's Native Range:
>
http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=5345&flora_id=1
> 
> You will notice that Georgia and some other places
> associated with a
> commercial pecan industry are not listed.
> 
> For the last few years I have been marking the GPS
> location of the few
> native trees that remain and have been collecting
> the seeds,
> stratifying, and germinating them for planting.
> 
> These pecan trees are unique in the fact that they
> are surviving on
> the border of USDA Hardiness Zone 5a and Zone 4b and
> they are able to
> ripen their nuts in a 165 day growing season with
> hot summers and cold
> winters.  The nuts are smaller than commercial nuts
> but have "more
> pecan flavor".
> 
> USDA Hardiness Zone Map:
> http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf
> 
> The most Northern native pecan trees are supposed to
> be located
> between Green Island and Belview, Iowa.   They are
> supposed to be able
> to be found in a protected water fowl sanctuary.  I
> only found two
> trees between a levy and the Mississippi River that
> were two young to
> bear.  There are supposed to be bearing trees but I
> could not locate
> them.
> 
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=501st+Ave,+Green+Island,+Iowa&layer=&sll=42.162894,-90.322037&sspn=0.05675,0.171661&ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=43.165123,-90.087891&spn=14.290916,43.945313&t=h&om=1&iwloc=addr
> 
> Adams Island near Camanche, Iowa:  Put your canoe
> into the Mississippi
> River at Iowa's Rock Creek State Park and make your
> way through slough
> to the South East side of Island.  Two pecan trees
> are over 120 ft
> tall.  There are a few younger bearing trees on a
> peninsula on the
> way to the island as well as some trees that are to
> young to bear on
> the shore at Rock Creek Park.
> 
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Camanche,+Iowa&layer=&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=41.700794,-90.319118&spn=0.057163,0.171661&t=h
> 
> Swan Lake Road near New Boston, Illinois:  Some
> pecan trees can be
> found between the levy and the Mississippi River.  
> More pecan trees
> can be found near the intersection of Swan Lake Road
> and 20th Street.
> Follow 20th Street North a bit and there are a
> couple more pecan
> trees, you can even see them standing alone along
> the right side of
> the road right before the road splits on the
> satellite map.
> 
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Swan+Lake+Rd+%26+20th+St,+New+Boston,+IL&layer=&sll=41.214304,-91.069965&sspn=0.057593,0.171661&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=14&ll=41.231218,-91.056576&spn=0.028789,0.085831&t=h
> 
> Chris
> zone 5a, IL
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