Explore: Native Nut Trees

crack-out percentage (ratio of nut meat to the whole nut by weight) is high. Ten-year-old trees average 22 kg (50 lb) per tree. It is a popular variety because

because trees were slow to mature and bear fruit. To speed nut production and retain the best tree characteristics, grafting from mature, productive trees was

of the largest and longest-lived trees in the Amazon rainforest. The fruit and its nutshell – containing the edible nut – are relatively large and weigh

commonly known as the marking nut tree, Malacca bean tree, marany nut, oriental cashew, dhobi nut tree and varnish tree, is a native of India, found in the outer

2008). "Learning the Trees that Places were Named after". Our Philippine Trees. Retrieved August 16, 2012. Philippine Native Trees 101: Up Close and Personal

tropical evergreen tree Anacardium occidentale, in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to South America and is the source of the cashew nut and the cashew

kola nut is a nut of evergreen trees of the genus Cola, primarily of the species Cola acuminata and Cola nitida. Cola acuminata, an evergreen tree about

the edible portion. The seed, commonly thought of as a nut, is a culinary nut, not a botanical nut. The fruit has a hard, cream-colored exterior shell.

expensive edible pine nut species as a form of food fraud. Some Native American tribes use the hard outer shell of the pine nut as a bead for decorative

this means it requires full sun for optimal growth and nut production. Black walnut's native range extends across much of the eastern US. It is absent