October 19, 2017
|pecan Juglandaceae (Wangenh.) K. Koch image: CAIL2|
|Leaf: Alternate, pinnately compound with 9 to 15 finely serrate and often curved leaflets, 12 to 18 ins lengthy.
Flower: Species is monecious; male plants in dangling, yellow-green catkins, often in sets of three (4 to 5 ins very long); females tend to be little and yellowish green, 4-angled.
Fruit: big, oblong, brown, splotched with black, thin shelled peanuts, 1 1/2 to 2 ins long, husks tend to be thin, typically take place in groups on trees, mature in fall.
Twig: Moderately stout, light brown, fuzzy (especially when youthful); leaf scars large and three-lobed; buds are yellowish-brown to brown, hairy, with terminal buds 1/4 to 1/2 inch long.
Bark: soft whenever young, getting narrowly fissured into thin broken strips, frequently scaly.
Kind: A large tree (can attain levels well over 100 legs) with spreading crown when in the wild. Appears like: liquid hickory - bitternut hickory
|Extra Number Suggestions:
Carya illinoinensis is indigenous to united states.
Number can be broadened by planting.
See says stating pecan.
USDAFS Silvics of United States
USDAFS New Silvics
USDA Flowers Database
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