Almond
Prunus dulcis
Early-blooming nut tree with self-incompatible and newer self-fertile cultivars, requiring careful bloom overlap and frost-risk management.
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Prunus dulcis
Early-blooming nut tree with self-incompatible and newer self-fertile cultivars, requiring careful bloom overlap and frost-risk management.
Castanea mollissima, C. crenata, C. sativa, C. dentata, and hybrids
Cross-pollinated chestnut trees grown for starchy nuts, with Chinese and hybrid cultivars emphasized for blight tolerance.
Corylus avellana, C. americana, and hybrids
Wind-pollinated nut shrub/tree requiring compatible pollen-shedding and receptive periods, with Eastern filbert blight resistance central to cultivar choice.
Carya illinoinensis
Wind-pollinated nut tree with protandrous and protogynous cultivars that require bloom overlap.
Pistacia vera
Heat-demanding dioecious nut tree requiring separate male and female cultivars with tightly matched bloom periods.
Juglans regia and Juglans nigra
English and black walnuts grown for kernels, with cultivar differences in bloom, lateral bearing, shell, kernel, and harvest.