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Texas Pecans - The native nut from the States goes global

April is National Pecan Month, a time to throw a spotlight on North America's only indigenous nut, and Georgia's governor signed a bill proclaiming the pecan the state's official nut. But a pecan isn't technically a nut. It's a drupe or drupish in ways. Really not completely clear to the less learned of us or the don't-really-care of us. Like a walnut, a pecan looks and acts a lot like a nut but identifies as a drupe, botanically speaking. Soon after the pecan bill was signed, Atlanta-based public radio did a tongue-in-cheek piece and pulled our good friend Lenny Wells into the pecan drupe-nu...