Elliot Pecan Tree
The papershell nuts of the Elliot pecan are almost round in appearance and mature early in the fall when wholesale prices are high. You will declare war on the squirrels and birds, if you plant the Elliot Pecan tree, because of its roundness, its quality, and small size, making the Elliot pecan extremely desirable food to birds, squirrels, coons, and possums. Many pecan items are popular to use for recreational purposes such as salted roasted pecans that have a wonderful distinct aroma, and the Elliot cultivar is a popular pecan to make into pecan brittle and chocolate pecan turtles. Candy makers love the Elliot pecan cultivar, because it shells out in perfect halves and makes great fruit cakes and pecan tarts.

The Elliot Pecan tree produces a papershell nut that is easy to shell out in perfect halves with a nut cracker. Many commercial orchard growers have discovered that in the deep South, especially Florida an orchard of Elliot Pecan trees produces the largest crops of nuts year after year. The shucks of the Elliot pecan begin to completely fill out in July and August, and the interior of the nut develops to maturity usually by mid-October. North Florida is the home of the small Elliot pecan nut of high quality. Sometimes the Elliot variety only bears in alternate years. Look for Elliot pecan tree nuts to mature in October, to sell fast to pecan papershell nut shellers. The thin shell (papershell) pecan of the Elliot variety grew first in Florida, and now is grafted to buy from TyTy Nursery.