Perhaps not as emblematic of the South as the magnolia, these trees are still part of the local culture. Neighbors and strangers randomly drove up and picked bucket loads of nuts out of my yard (fall 2009), and the puppy hid the rest throughout the house in unlikely places. Now that I know the vaguely creepy farmer's market on Eisenhower will shell the nuts, I'll actually try to do something with the next crop.
Pecan tree with spring catkins (April 2010).
Easy to identify when the nuts are available. Pecans are a type of hickory tree, and technically not nuts but fruits (drupes, to be more specific). Mine give nuts every year, which seems to indicate one protandrous cultivar (produces pollen first) and one protogynous (is pollinated first). I'm not sure though, all the catkins seemed to appear at the same time.
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