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‘Burton’ is a cultivar of hican (nut or tree) a cross between hickory and pecan species of the genus Carya. The Burton is an edible nut of the hicans; it is considered a shagbark (smaller nuts higher yielding). Hicans can be both edible or inedible if the nut is larger but the tree produces far less than a shagbark they are considered shellbarks. A seedling from ‘Burton’ is commonly called a ‘Dooley Burton’ it is also an edible hican nut.