The pecan is the state tree of Texas and it is native to exactly this ground — river bottoms with deep, well-drained silt that floods occasionally and drains fast. Wild groves along the Colorado and the Brazos fed people here long before anyone planted an orchard, and the trees are long-lived enough that some standing now were mature before the first Anglo colonists arrived. Pecans are also famously irregular: a grove will produce heavily one year and almost nothing the next, a rhythm called masting that keeps seed predators from ever settling into a reliable food supply.
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