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Pecan trees, 'Carya illinoinensis, "grow in natural plantations on land near the bottom of rivers or lakes nearby periodic overflowing water. The archaeological and fossil evidence reveals that pecans were collected and stored by the Indians, settlers and inhabitants of America, and the group now known as mound builders ". American Indians have followed suit and even have been actively collecting pecan nuts when European settlers arrived. The pecan trees were found growing along their northern boundaries of the tributaries of the Mississippi River near Louisville, Kentucky, Terra Haute, Indiana, and Clinton, Iowa, which is at the same latitude as Chicago, Illinois.

In 1792, William Bartram reported in his book of botanical, travel, which identified American plants and animal names and Indian encounters which stood just west of Augusta, Georgia, he recorded a walnut, Juglans exalata "that some botanists say today was the U.S. pecan tree, but others claim the hickory," Carya ovata. It's one of those circular arguments that will never be resolved to satisfy everyone.

Thomas Jefferson planted pecan trees, 'Carya illinoinensis (Illinois nuts) in his walnut orchard at his beautiful home, Monticello, Virginia, and George Washington reported in his journal that Thomas Jefferson himself "the nuts Illinois; pecans which grew at Mount Vernon, Virginia home of George Washington. The trees have grown and stately height and spread proudly today. He called agriculture "the noblest of professions ".

Pecan trees are from the United States and are growing naturally anywhere else in the world. The range of pecan trees are native growing along rivers in Texas and surrounding lands of the Lower Mississippi River in Louisville, Kentucky, Terra Haute, Indiana, and Clinton, Iowa, which is at the same latitude as Chicago, Illinois. Pecan trees are native also increasingly in the west to Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas. The nomadic tribes of Indians carried these nuts in their native habitat in other areas of the United States and planted there the nuts as seed. Some of these trees have grown and survived as "specimens Goliath" as a seedling with a trunk diameter of seven feet which is the tyty, Georgia Farm Nursery.

The shape of pecan is highly variable: some are oval and some are long and thin. The size of the nuts can be as small as a pencil eraser or as large as 1.5 "inches in diameter to over three inches long. Kernels can vary in size from the hull, filling some with little or no certain fill all. pecans Some kernel density so compact that the shells can be broken while the nuts are still on the tree by the swelling pressure that is generated inside, especially after heavy rains in end of the ripening season.

The flavor of the pecan is considered by gourmets nut having an overweight and juicy sweetness that is superior to all other nuts, without exception. Many pecan shelling business operations prefer to use automatic mechanical crackers after briefly dipping the nuts in the shell overnight. That the results of treatment in the production of more "perfect halves," requiring the public the highest price. Some prefer to plant small shellers shell (native pecans), as a candy maker or baker can put a nut on top of her clothing at a lower price, because small walnut halves to cover more individual pieces of candy nuts would be greater. The core of pecan is unique, because it contains a high concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids and oils that are rich in antioxidants. This oil is so concentrated that if a match is lit near the nucleus of flame and is consumed by its own oils held within.

Commercial shellers prefer to offer for sale "perfect pecan halves" to their g.