← hickory
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Wilcox
Carya ovata
The record
- Parentage
- Carya ovata
- Origin
- not recorded
- Rights
- rights unknown — No patent, certificate, or trademark found in the sources consulted.
- Nut
- Medium-sized, tasty, cracking easily into halves
- Bearing
- Early — reported bearing within five to seven years
- Yield
- Prolific
Description
The shagbark selected for how soon it starts. Bearing within five to seven years is fast for this genus, and for anyone planting hickory as part of a system rather than as a legacy it may matter more than nut size.
Pair that with cracking cleanly into halves and you have the two traits that decide whether a hickory is a crop or an ornament. Everything else about a hickory — the shaggy bark, the autumn colour, the timber — the tree does anyway.