Pecans come in a variety of sizes including mammoth, extra large, large, medium, small and midget.
Pecans are sold as whole nuts, halves, pieces, granules or meal.
There are more than 1,000 named varieties of pecans.
Many pecan varieties are named after Native American tribes: Cheyenne, Mohawk, Choctaw, Sioux and Shawnee.
The pecan kernel is 70 percent oil.
Pecans are one of the most recently domesticated crops, only being commercially produced within the last 200 years.
Pecans are wind-pollinated.
Pecans are certified as heart-healthy by the American Heart Association.
The city of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records by making a pecan pie 40-foot in diameter. The city holds the world record for largest pecan brownie, as well.
Georgia pecan wood was selected by the Atlanta Committee to make the handles of the torches for the 1996 Olympic Games.
The pecan tree at the Alamo is the oldest tree on the property. It was planted in 1850.
Trees can take two centuries to mature to their full strength and size; durability is one of the qualities that make pecan wood ideal for fine woodworking.
Roasted pecan shells were a common coffee substitute in Civil War rations.
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