Native nuts

[samyaza]

Hi folks.

It's been a few years I'm curious about American native nuts. We don't have many available in France, only English walnuts and cobnuts.

My first contact with these species was 4 years ago when I found some exotic looking ( to my opinion at that time ) ornamental nut heavy-bearing trees in a public park. After a short research I identified it as black walnuts. They were of a poor nut quality breed, however : small size, low kernel ratio and pretty thick, hard shell.

I'm aware that all these species thrive here but most of them wouldn't bear nuts under my conditions.

Somehow, I believe that some hickory cultivars would do it here, particularly. The problem is that all I found in nurseries are a few northern pecan and no feedback.

Anyone would have source for sexy nuts as listed here or at Nolin River Nut Tree Nursery ? Or at least a few fresh nuts of these ?

[khoomeizhi]

i've got some seed from cultivar black walnuts - thinner shells, meats crack out in larger pieces (including halves), some have lighter-colored kernels...but they're all from last year. some definitely are past growing (shriveled kernels) but some would probably be fine - or the nut meats look like it, anyway. not sure how easy it'll be to separate out the good ones. they're from the orchard of an amateur grower in kentucky.

there's some shell- and shagbark hickory seed from cultivars around here somewhere, too, but i think they're going to have to be for seed here.