Meet the buartnut, the hybrid plant created in the Okanagan

Did you know there is a nut that was designed right here in the Okanagan?

That's right, meet the buartnut, a hybrid plant created by Jack Gellatly himself - the founder of the Gellatly Nut Farm.

It was developed sometime between the 1930s and 1960s.

Toiling away on his farm splicing different species of nut trees from around the world together to create one hardy enough to survive the Canadian winter, he created the plant.

The buartnut is a cross between a butternut and a Japanese heartnut - hence the name.

"It's significant as an example of the ingenuity, the ambition, the creativity, the hard work of somebody like Jack Gellatly," RDCO Park Interpreter Risti Lesperance told Kelowna10. "To find new products and new food sources for what was a growing community, I think that is a big part of what the buartnut signifies."