Pecan
Carya illinoinensis · Juglandaceae · 피칸
How to spot it
A pinnate compound leaf with sickle-shaped leaflets, and a fruit husk that splits into four parts.
Look
- Leaves
- Pinnate compound leaves with 9 to 17 lanceolate leaflets.
- Flowers
- Male flowers hang in long yellow-green catkins; female flowers are in shorter spike-like clusters.
- Fruit
- The husk splits into four parts as it matures, holding an edible nut.
- Bark
- Gray-brown bark with rectangular furrows.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted (Hanbat Arboretum)
- Native to
- Native from the central and east-central United States to Mexico.
- Ecology
- In North American sources the nuts feed small mammals and birds, and the tree is recorded as a larval host plant for moths such as Citheronia regalis.