Stern@lemmy.worldM to Neat - For neat stuff you found@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoHow pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple – the 8,000-year history of America’s only native major nut croptheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkHow pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple – the 8,000-year history of America’s only native major nut croptheconversation.comStern@lemmy.worldM to Neat - For neat stuff you found@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoI wonder if chestnuts would factor into this if they hadn’t suffered from a blight. They are pretty tasty also, but have a different type of shell.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoI was going to say: “only remaining major nut crop”, because our great grandparents let the previous one go extinct.
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoThey’re still around! But they don’t grow like they used to. You can find fruiting ones, and they aren’t expected to go extinct (supposedly) because of their growth habits.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoCool! I thought that they had gone functionally extinct, with no more fruiting ones, only endlings
I wonder if chestnuts would factor into this if they hadn’t suffered from a blight. They are pretty tasty also, but have a different type of shell.
I was going to say: “only remaining major nut crop”, because our great grandparents let the previous one go extinct.
They’re still around! But they don’t grow like they used to. You can find fruiting ones, and they aren’t expected to go extinct (supposedly) because of their growth habits.
Cool! I thought that they had gone functionally extinct, with no more fruiting ones, only endlings