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Diospyros virginiana is a persimmon species commonly called the American persimmon, [3] common persimmon, [4] eastern persimmon, simmon, possumwood, possum apples, [5] or sugar plum. [6] It ranges from southern Connecticut to Florida , and west to Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , and Iowa .
Persimmon fruit seed Persimmons on a tree at Bilpin, New South Wales. The persimmon ( / p ər ˈ s ɪ m ə n / ) is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros . The most widely cultivated of these is the kaki persimmon, Diospyros kaki [ 1 ] – Diospyros is in the family Ebenaceae , and a number of non-persimmon ...
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• Fuyu persimmons are short and round and look a bit like an orange tomato. The non-astringent variety has wide leaves on top and a flat bottom. Most Fuyu persimmons have no seeds or very small ...
An economically significant plant pathogen infecting many Diospyros species – D. hispida, kaki persimmon (D. kaki), date-plum (D. lotus), Texas persimmon (D. texana), Coromandel ebony (D. melanoxylon) and probably others – is the sac fungus Pseudocercospora kaki, which causes a leaf spot disease.
When you cut open a persimmon seed, you will see a white marking, in the shape of a knife, fork, or spoon, and each indicates something different for the winter ahead.
This is a tree of height 15–30 m (49–98 ft) with sloughing of aging bark. The tree will commonly stop growing at 15 m (49 ft), it grows slowly and will spread in a horizontal direction as it matures. [4] The leaves are shiny, leathery, oval-shaped with pointed ends, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) in width.