# Nut & Fruit Trees

> Pecan, hickory, walnut, pawpaw, persimmon and other native food trees.

Sixty-seven native food plants fall into three groups. [Northern pecan](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pecan/index.html.md), [black walnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-walnut/index.html.md), eleven hickories and American beech are among those for nuts. [Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pawpaw/index.html.md), [American persimmon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-persimmon/index.html.md), [red mulberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-mulberry/index.html.md), the plums, the hawthorns and the crabapples are among those for fruit, and [American hazelnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-hazelnut/index.html.md) and beaked hazelnut make both a hedge and a crop. Twenty-eight of the sixty-seven need a second tree, or a male among the females, before they bear, and twenty-four more bear better with one nearby. Each page says which, and the [pollination planner](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/pollination/index.html.md) counts it for you. American hazelnut bears at 2 to 3 years and persimmon at 4 to 9. Sizes run from a knee-high pawpaw to pecans and hickories of 100 feet and more, hardy from USDA zone 2 to zone 10 depending on the species. All are sold as saplings, eighteen of them also as nuts and forty-nine as seed to sow. The [Native Edible Orchard](https://bluewhaletrees.com/bundles/edible-orchard/index.html.md) bundle puts pawpaw, persimmon, plum, pecan and hazelnut together with black chokeberry.

18 of 364 plants matching grown as nuts. Each plant links to its own Markdown page with the full facts, description and growing guide. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/nuts-fruit/?as=nuts

Columns: Zones are the USDA hardiness zones the plant takes, from the coldest to the warmest it is rated for (zone 2 is the coldest, 10 the warmest); Height is mature height in feet; Sun and Soil list every condition the plant takes; Grown from is what the nursery offers it as (saplings, or acorns, nuts or seed to sow); Price is the lowest price for sale, a plant size's first and a packet's apart, or Sold out for a priced plant with nothing for sale, or "ask" when the plant is not yet priced online (email captain@bluewhaletrees.com or join the waitlist on the web page).

This table accepts the shop's filters as query parameters on this address: size (shrub, small-tree, medium-tree, large-tree), sun (full, part, shade), moisture (dry, average, wet), zone (2 to 10), native (a state's two-letter code in capitals, such as PA: the plants native to that state by the USDA PLANTS records), want (a trait: flowers, fall-color, wildlife, honey, edible, evergreen, rare, drought, wet-tolerant, shade, early-bearing, screening, nitrogen-fixing, salt, winter-interest, street-tree, erosion-control; rare means uncommon in the wild or in nurseries, honey a nectar source for bees), as (acorns, seed, nuts, saplings) and q (a search word). Several values may be joined with commas.

| Plant | Botanical name | Group | Type | Height (ft) | Zones | Sun | Soil | Grown from | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Northern Pecan](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pecan/index.html.md) | *Carya illinoinensis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 70–100 | 5–9 | Full | Average, Wet | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Shagbark Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shagbark-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya ovata* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 60–90 | 4–8 | Full | Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Black Walnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-walnut/index.html.md) | *Juglans nigra* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 70–100 | 4–9 | Full | Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [American Hazelnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-hazelnut/index.html.md) | *Corylus americana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 8–12 | 4–9 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Mockernut Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mockernut-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya tomentosa* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 60–80 | 4–9 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Pignut Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pignut-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya glabra* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 50–80 | 4–9 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Shellbark Hickory (Kingnut)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shellbark-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya laciniosa* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 60–80 | 5–8 | Full, Part | Average, Wet | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Nutmeg Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nutmeg-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya myristiciformis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 80–100 | 7–9 | Full | Average, Wet | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Sand Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya pallida* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 40–100 | 5–9 | Full | Dry, Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Black Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya texana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Medium tree | 30–80 | 5–9 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Bitternut Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bitternut-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya cordiformis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 50–80 | 4–9 | Full, Part | Average, Wet | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Butternut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/butternut/index.html.md) | *Juglans cinerea* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Medium tree | 40–60 | 3–7 | Full | Average, Dry | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Beaked Hazelnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/beaked-hazelnut/index.html.md) | *Corylus cornuta* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 4–10 | 3–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Red Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya ovalis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 60–100 | 4–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry, Wet | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Scrub Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/scrub-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya floridana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 10–30 | 8–10 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [American Beech](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-beech/index.html.md) | *Fagus grandifolia* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 50–80 | 3–9 | Full, Part, Shade | Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Little Walnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/little-walnut/index.html.md) | *Juglans microcarpa* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 20–30 | 5–9 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Southern Shagbark Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/southern-shagbark-hickory/index.html.md) | *Carya carolinae-septentrionalis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 70–125 | 5–8 | Full, Part | Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |