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nut seeds for planting Wild Pecan Tree Seeds | Carya illinoinensis

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nut seeds for planting Wild Pecan Tree Seeds | Carya illinoinensisNorth America's most valuable native nut. Wilder than the orchard variety. Better than you expect. Carya illinoinensis, the Wild Pecan, is the native form of the most commercially important nut tree in North America, growing naturally along river bottoms and bottomland forests from Illinois south through Texas and into Mexico. Wild pecans produce smaller nuts than the cultivated orchard varieties bred for commercial production, but the flavor is

North America's most valuable native nut. Wilder than the orchard variety. Better than you expect.

Carya illinoinensis, the Wild Pecan, is the native form of the most commercially important nut tree in North America, growing naturally along river bottoms and bottomland forests from Illinois south through Texas and into Mexico. Wild pecans produce smaller nuts than the cultivated orchard varieties bred for commercial production, but the flavor is richer, more complex, and more intensely nutty than most commercial pecans, and the trees themselves are more genetically diverse and ecologically valuable than clonally propagated orchard trees. A mature Wild Pecan is one of the most magnificent native trees in the southern and central United States, developing a massive spreading canopy that provides deep shade and enormous quantities of nuts for wildlife. If you are looking to buy Wild Pecan seeds or grow native pecan from seed, this is a tree that delivers timber, food, and wildlife value on the scale of few other native trees.

  • The native form of the most commercially important nut tree in North America
  • Produces rich, complex-flavored nuts smaller than commercial varieties but superior in taste
  • Massive canopy at maturity, one of the largest native trees in the central and southern United States
  • Critically important mast crop for deer, turkey, squirrel, wood ducks, and many other wildlife species
  • Nitrogen-demanding, deep-rooted, and extremely long-lived, building soil and ecosystem value over centuries

Things you probably did not know about the Wild Pecan

The pecan is the only major tree nut native to North America. Every other commercially important nut tree consumed in significant quantities in the United States, walnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, macadamias, chestnuts, is either native to other continents or a minor native species in limited cultivation. The pecan is the sole exception, a major commercial nut crop that originated and was domesticated within North America by Indigenous peoples thousands of years before European contact.

Indigenous peoples selected and propagated superior pecan trees centuries before European contact. Archaeobotanical evidence and historical accounts document that Native American communities across the southern plains and Mississippi Valley managed wild pecan groves, transplanted superior seedlings, and traded pecan nuts across enormous distances. The domestication of pecan was well underway before Europeans arrived, making it one of the few domesticated food plants with an entirely Indigenous American origin story.

A mature Wild Pecan can drop over 200 pounds of nuts in a mast year. In good mast years, which occur roughly every two to three years for wild pecans, a single large tree can produce extraordinary quantities of nuts. These mast events drive population booms in deer, turkey, and squirrels that are visible for miles around any productive wild pecan stand. Hunters across the south specifically seek properties with wild pecan bottoms for exactly this reason.

The wood is harder and more impact-resistant than hickory. Wild Pecan wood ranks among the hardest and most shock-resistant native hardwoods in North America. It was used for axe handles, baseball bats, and wooden wheel spokes for generations before synthetic materials became available. The combination of hardness, flexibility, and shock resistance makes pecan wood uniquely suited to applications requiring a tool that absorbs repeated impact loading.

Growing Details

  • Botanical Name: Carya illinoinensis
  • Stratification: Required, 90 to 120 days cold moist stratification, recalcitrant seed, keep moist
  • USDA Zones: 5 to 9
  • Soil: Deep, rich, well-drained bottomland soil preferred, tolerates a range of conditions
  • Light: Full sun
  • Height: 70 to 100 feet
  • Spread: 60 to 80 feet
  • Growth Rate: Moderate, 1 to 2 feet per year when young, faster as established

Plant it in the deepest, richest soil you have and give it room. A Wild Pecan at 100 years old is one of the most impressive trees in the North American landscape.

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Denise Swafford
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★★★★★ 5
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Always have these in my purse and beside my bed. Mouth is dry and these help to keep it moisturized. Lasts several hours, nice taste, sugar free. I feel saw to use at night, sticks to my mouth wherever I place it. I have never had it slip out of my mouth at night and choke me. My dentist recommended them.
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i have xerostomia...this is a dry mouth due to radiation treatments...I have minimum saliva. I must sip water or a liquid with every bite of food. When i talk my mouth quickly dries and makes it difficult to speak......I have tried many....many different sprays, gels, etc. etc. Along came Xylimelts and it has been the best thing for me to date. It does add some moisture to my mouth and the great part is that it lasts for a very long time. I use the mint free only because my dry mouth is more sensitive to certain tastes. I once used Biotene and now i stay away from all of their products.....Biotene was around a while and marketed their product and had become very popular....Glaxo Smith Kline ( the big drug company that only cares about their profits over our health) purchased Biotene and had altered the product for the worse and they have done this with other products. They actually removed beneficial ingredients and replaced them with poor ingredients....Here is just one example: Xylitol was in one of their products ( Biotene toothpaste) when they purchased the company from Biotene. Xylitol has beneficial qualities and they replaced it with the Cancer in Laboratory rats ingredient called Sacharin... They have removed other ingredients as well...I stay away from any product from Glaxo Smith Kline. I have my own personal boycott and that means I no longer buy their Tums as well... Yes...They played their games with Tums also.....so i just do not buy their products. Xylimelts does work for me...very very well. It adheres to the gums above my teeth and it just stays there adds moisture to my mouth. Obviously i recommend this product
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A couple of years ago my dentist and hygienist told me about Xylimelts, which I promptly ordered and appreciated as soon as I used them. After suffering teeth problems due to meds for years, it's too late for me to save my uppers -- dry mouth had decayed my teeth, even with plenty of hydration, good dental hygiene and wonderful dental care (when I didn't put it off a few times, sigh...), and I’m about to get dentures :( . I started out putting two in my mouth at night, but that seemed to be a bit much -- they'd cause me to drool and stain my pillow (washed right out!) Mostly out of concern for the cost of Xylimelts, I began putting only one in my mouth at bedtime. This has worked well for the most part, though some nights I still wake up with a dry mouth, and sometimes put in another one. This could be due to allergies though, my nose is often stuffy as I sleep. However, two would probably prevent this from happening. I tried the non-mint kind first, then accidentally ordered the mint kind once, but I prefer the non-mint flavor. It’s got no real taste, and that suits me fine. By the way, it does take 10 seconds to adhere them, but if you are not comfortable with that spot, you can move them to a better one without them losing their “stick” to the outside of your teeth or gums.
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