Improved varieties are created by grafting cuttings from one variety of pecan tree onto rootstock belonging to a different variety. If you are wondering why someone would do that, here’s why.

DALLAS (KTVT) — For decades, a pair of pecan trees have framed the front of the Bellew home in Lake Highlands. “It is a selling point for the neighborhood that there are lots of trees,” said ...

“That process of grafting takes extra time than rooting something from a cutting,” Polozola said. “That’s why your fruit trees and your other ornamentals that are grafted often cost more.