Henry
Carya laciniosa
The record
- Parentage
- Carya laciniosa
- Origin
- Fayette Etter · Franklin County, Pennsylvania · selected in the 1940s
- Rights
- rights unknown — No patent, certificate, or trademark found in the sources consulted.
- Nut
- Large, cracking out in whole halves
- Yield
- Reported very productive
- Hardiness
- USDA zone 5
- Pests
- Reported weevil-resistant
Description
The middle of the three Etter shellbarks, and the one whose trait list reads most like a working orchard cultivar.
Two entries on that list are worth separating. Cracking out in whole halves is a processing trait, and it is the same economics as an easy-peel chestnut pellicle: labour per pound, not pounds per tree. Weevil resistance is a field trait, and it is rarer and more valuable than it sounds — nut weevil is the reason a good hickory crop can be worthless by the time it is shelled.
Both claims come from grower and nursery accounts rather than from a trial publication, which is the general condition of hickory evidence.
Where to find it
No source recorded. That does not mean the cultivar is unavailable, only that this record does not yet name a nursery carrying it. Point us at one and it goes in.