Carya 'Elliot'
Elliot Pecan
- 11 available.
- Guaranteed locally grown
- Delivery ONLY to Metro Atlanta & Athens within 5-7 business days
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Pickup in 3-5 business days from our Switchyard in Chamblee
(Mon & Fri 3pm-6pm - 3708 N Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA)
Elliot Pecan is a massive deciduous tree popular in the South for its small but very high quality and strongly flavored teardrop shaped nuts. The compound green leaves turn yellow-brown in fall. Elliot matures early, starting to produce a good yield of nuts at a mere 6-9 years, but bear alternately. Grows best in full sun and rich, moist well-drained soils. Elliot is highly resistant to scab but is tender to late spring freezes.
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70’ - 100’ |
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Spread: |
60’ - 70’ |
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Spacing: |
65’ |
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USDA Hardiness Zone: |
6 - 9 |
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Bloom Color: |
Green |
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance. Difficult to transplant due to taproot. Large trees can produce considerable litter with twigs, leaves, and nuts. No serious disease or pests. Hickory bark beetle, pecan weevil, borers and twig girdler can be problems in some areas. White heart rot, anthracnose, leaf blotch, powdery mildew, leaf spot, cankers, catkin blight, crown gall and scab are occasional diseases.
LANDSCAPE USES: Specimen planting or mass plantings, Woodland Garden, Naturalized Areas, Native Garden, and Shade Tree.
COMPANION PLANTS: Yellow Birch, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Bottlebrush Buckeye
IMAGES: Forest and Kim Starr, starr-110601-6042-Carya_illinoinensis-habit-Keokea-Maui, (2) Lars Plougmann, Spring is here, (3) Judy Baxter/U.S. Department of Agriculture, 85058891 156b313898 z - Flickr - USDAgov, CC BY 2.0
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
