This article is part of Texas Monthly’s special fiftieth-anniversary issue. Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. Wild pecans yield their pleasures stingily. They’re ...

“There’s Pecan trees all over Central Texas,” Dr. Shane McLellan, County Extension Agent for Ag for McLennan County, said. “There’s pecan trees everywhere. Everybody has them, and it’s ...

To verify, we talked to Dr. Monte Nesbitt, a professor of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M University and used data from the National Weather Service. Dr. Nesbitt said that pecan trees ...

Texas settlers looked around them and saw, on the banks of almost every river and stream, pecan groves that seemed to stretch into infinity. Without compunction they chopped the trees down to grow ...

The pecan tree became the official state tree of Texas in 1919, credited to Governor Hogg’s love for the tree. Pecans are native to about 150 counties in Texas and capable of growing and ...

Tom: Long term, do you worry about the sustainability of your crop in a warming Texas? Mark: Pecan trees are pretty resilient. They’re a hickory, they’re a strong tree. As long as we can get ...