General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Containers: Not suitable for containers

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Common names
  • Japanese Persimmon
  • Oriental Persimmon
  • Sharon Fruit
  • Kaki
  • Persimmon
Also sold as:
  • Tane-Nashi

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Date: c. 1929
photo from the 1929 catalog, Glen Saint Mary Nurseries, Florida

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