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"Sharon fruit" (named after the Sharon plain in Israel) is the marketing name for the Israeli-bred cultivar 'Triumph'. [32] As with most commercial pollination-variant-astringent persimmons, the fruit are ripened off the tree by exposing them to carbon dioxide. The "sharon fruit" has no core, is seedless and particularly sweet, and can be eaten ...
The linked web page gives no source for the claim that Sharon fruit are all chemically treated and the writers, the "Californian Rare Fruit Growers association" are a long way from Israel. Fruit and vegetables: harvesting, handling and storage By A. Keith Thompson states "Postharvest treatment with alcohol has been known for over 100 years in ...
Diospyros kaki, the Oriental persimmon, [2] Chinese persimmon, Japanese persimmon or kaki persimmon, [3] is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros.Although its first botanical description was not published until 1780, [4] [3] D. kaki cultivation in China dates back more than 2000 years.
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Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
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