Pecan Cluster

Pecans, members of the hickory family, produce nuts that appear in clusters of three to six. The individual hard-shelled nuts develop inside outer casings known as shucks.

Pecan cluster on a Cape Fear pecan tree at the Auburn University Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center in Fairhope
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Pecan cluster on a Cape Fear pecan tree at the Auburn University Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center in Fairhope