# Nut & Fruit Trees

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

Sixty-nine 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-nine of the sixty-nine need a second tree, or a male among the females, before they bear, and twenty-five 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 fifty-one 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.

14 of 414 plants matching "prunus". Each plant links to its own Markdown page with the full facts, description and growing guide. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/nuts-fruit/?q=prunus

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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [American Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus americana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 15–25 | 3–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Beach Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/beach-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus maritima* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 4–8 | 3–8 | Full | Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Chickasaw Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chickasaw-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus angustifolia* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 4–20 | 5–9 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Allegheny Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/allegheny-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus alleghaniensis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 3–20 | 4–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Mexican Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mexican-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus mexicana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 10–35 | 5–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Flatwoods Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/flatwoods-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus umbellata* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 12–20 | 4–10 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Canada Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/canada-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus nigra* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 10–30 | 2–6 | Full, Part | Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Pin Cherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pin-cherry/index.html.md) | *Prunus pensylvanica* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 15–40 | 2–7 | Full | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Chokecherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chokecherry/index.html.md) | *Prunus virginiana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 20–30 | 2–10 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Hortulan Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hortulan-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus hortulana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 20–30 | 5–7 | Full, Part | Average, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Scrub Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/scrub-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus geniculata* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 2–6 | 9–10 | Full | Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Sand Cherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-cherry/index.html.md) | *Prunus pumila* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 1–8 | 3–6 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Black Cherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-cherry/index.html.md) | *Prunus serotina* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Large tree | 50–80 | 2–9 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Creek Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/creek-plum/index.html.md) | *Prunus rivularis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 3–25 | 7–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |