Origin: in Masonville, Ky., by Emmett Burton. Introd. in 1930 by J. Ford Wilkinson, Indiana Nut Nursery, Rockport, Ind. Chance seedling of Carya illinoinensis × C. ovata, discovered in 1880. Nut: size medium; shell thin with slight shagbark ridges; flavor blend of pecan and shagbark hickory; harvested in October. Tree: large; vigor good; productive, more so than most hicans, more annual than shagbark hickory; no evidence of pecan scab, susceptible to pecan weevil; protogynous, pollinated by protandrous pecans. Fruit:
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