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  • From: "Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] bitter pecans
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:55:20 -0500

>I have a pecan that has inedible nuts.  The husks never release from the nuts and the nuts are very bitter. 

 

You have a hican, in this case a bitternut pecan cross.  What a pity.  Some occur naturally, some are sold as landscaping trees

 

Or, you could have C.aquatica, commonly known as ‘bitter pecan’ – or a hybrid of C.aquatica and C.illinoensis, which might well have the astringency that is not uncommon with pecan hybrids with C.aquatica or C.cordiformis(bitternut hickory)

Lucky




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