Burton is a
cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...
of
hican
A hican is a tree resulting from a cross between a pecan and some other type of hickory (members of the genus '' Carya'') - or the nut from such a hybrid tree.
Such crosses often occur naturally while most such hybrids produce unfilled nuts or h ...
(nut or tree), a cross between hickory and pecan, species of the genus ''
Carya
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes 19 species accepted by ''Plants of the World Online''.
Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India (Assam), and twelve ...
''. Burton nuts have a unique, yet very pleasing hickory flavor indicative of hickory trees.
Hickory-pecan hybrids are often unproductive.
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Information about the Burton
References
Edible nuts and seeds
Hybrid plants
Pecan
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