Origin: in Ocean Springs, Miss., by Charles Forkert. Apparently a chance seedling discovered in 1930 in a variety trial, when one tree of six sent to the U.S. Dept. of Agr. Pecan Laboratory as Desirable by the nurseryman, T. Bechtel, proved to be different. Nut: oblong, with obtuse apex and obtuse to rounded base; round in cross section; kernels with wide, flared dorsal grooves and deep secondary dorsal grooves. Protogynous (while Desirable is protandrous). Moderately susceptible to scab. Resistant to bunch disease. Tree vigorous and erect, with bark and foliage darker than Desirable; fall foliage retention better than Desirable. Tree: Fruit:
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