# 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. [Native fruit and nut trees to grow and eat](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/native-fruit-and-nut-trees/index.html.md) says when each starts to bear and whether to plant a seedling or a grafted tree.

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

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 Persimmon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-persimmon/index.html.md) | *Diospyros virginiana* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Medium tree | 35–60 | 4–9 | Full, Part | Dry, Average, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pawpaw/index.html.md) | *Asimina triloba* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 15–30 | 5–9 | Part, Shade, Full | Average, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [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 |
| [Mayhaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mayhaw/index.html.md) | *Crataegus aestivalis* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 10–40 | 4–10 | Full, Part | Average, Wet | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Cockspur Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cockspur-hawthorn/index.html.md) | *Crataegus crus-galli* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 20–30 | 3–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Seed | ask |
| [Red Chokeberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-chokeberry/index.html.md) | *Aronia arbutifolia* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 6–12 | 3–9 | Full, Part | Average, Wet | 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 |
| [Pear Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pear-hawthorn/index.html.md) | *Crataegus calpodendron* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Small tree | 7–23 | 4–8 | Part, Full, Shade | Average | 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 |
| [Saskatoon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/saskatoon/index.html.md) | *Amelanchier alnifolia* | Nut & Fruit Trees | Shrub | 3–26 | 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 |