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Among many thousands of wild pecan trees were a few which bore exceptionally fine nuts, nuts similar to those now found at every grocery store and called "papershell" pecans.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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"Of the several dozen, mussel species in the Pearl River, only one -- the fragile papershell -- was significantly affected by the Bogalusa spill," Wood said.
Susan Buchanan: The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats Susan Buchanan 2011
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"Of the several dozen, mussel species in the Pearl River, only one -- the fragile papershell -- was significantly affected by the Bogalusa spill," Wood said.
Susan Buchanan: The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats Susan Buchanan 2011
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This district produces papershell walnuts for other parts of Poland.
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In shape they are rough, but one variety has papershell and sweet flavor.
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"Of the several dozen, mussel species in the Pearl River, only one -- the fragile papershell -- was significantly affected by the Bogalusa spill," Wood said.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Susan Buchanan 2011
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The rivers of Illinois were once rife with the orange-foot pimpleback and the cracking pearlymussel; spike and Wabash riffleshell; tubercled blossom and Higgins eye; winged mapleleaf and round hickorynut; pondhorn, pink papershell, pyramid pigtoe, paper pondshell, and purple lilliput.
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One study estimated that a single fragile papershell could produce up to 2,225,000 larvae.
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Periodically one calls out the name of a new species: fragile papershell, strange floater, giant floater.
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