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'Onliwon' (Nut Photo) 'Onliwon' (pronounced Only One) is a 'San Saba' seedling, selected by E. E. Risien from his orchard in San Saba, Texas. It was first advertised the 1916 catalog of Risien's West Texas Pecan Nursery. Nuts are oval elliptic with acute apex and rounded base; round in cross section; about 64 nuts/lb, 60% kernel. Kernels cream to golden in color, with medium to narrow dorsal grooves and a very distinctive dorsal ridge that is reduced from the middle to the apex (sometimes called "broken back"). Protandrous bloom pattern.



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