Genus - Diospyros Species - Virginiana Common name - Persimmon Other names - American Persimmon Pre-Treatment - Required Hardiness zones - 4 - 9 Height - 15'-30' / 4.50 - 9 m Spread - 15'-25' / 4.50 - 8 m Plant type - Medium Tree Vegetation type - Deciduous Exposure - Full Sun, Partial Shade Growth rate - Medium Soil PH - Acidic, Neutral Soil type - Clay, Loam, Well drained Water requirements - Average Water Landscape uses - Edible, Feature Plant, Fruit / Fruit Tree, Shade Trees Germination rate - 89% Leaf / Flower color - Green / Yellow Green Plant growth rate - Medium

• PERSIMMON Diospyros Virginiana 5 SEEDS
• The beautiful, fruit-bearing North American persimmon is a deciduous shade tree native across much of the eastern United States with some disjunct populations in the West. Mature specimens become quite large and attractive, but trees are slow to reach maturity and can be quite weedy when young forming dense thickets where birds and other wildlife drop their seeds.
• The small, astringent, bright orange persimmons are produced in fall and delicious when cooked or added to baked goods. They are inedible before fully ripe but sweeten up after hard frost. In the wild, the common persimmon can be found growing in both upland and lowland hardwood and coniferous forests.
• Common persimmon trees have deep taproots and strong, straight trunks lined with dark, blocky, almost checkered bark. Their simple, elliptical leaves are medium green and turn shades of yellow, orange and red in fall. The trees are dioecious, meaning some trees have male flowers and others have female.
• All the flowers are small, urn-shaped, brownish yellow and produced in late spring. The male, or staminate, flowers are small and in clusters of two to three while the female blooms are borne individually. The waxy orange fruits are flattened spherical berries with leafy tops and eight flattened seeds inside. They are thick-skinned and inedible until they soften after hard frost. Wildlife relish the fruits

PERSIMMON Diospyros Virginiana 5 SEEDS