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American Persimmon |
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Persimmon |
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Wild Persimmon |
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Common persimmon |
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Eastern persimmon |
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Date Plum |
Plant Habit: | Tree |
Life cycle: | Perennial |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Water Preferences: | Mesic |
Plant Height: | 40 feet plus |
Plant Spread: | 30 - 40 feet |
Leaves: | Good fall color Deciduous |
Fruit: | Showy Edible to birds |
Fruiting Time: | Late summer or early fall Fall |
Flowers: | Showy Fragrant |
Flower Color: | White Yellow |
Flower Time: | Late winter or early spring Spring Late spring or early summer |
Suitable Locations: | Xeriscapic |
Uses: | Windbreak or Hedge Provides winter interest Shade Tree Will Naturalize |
Edible Parts: | Fruit |
Eating Methods: | Raw Cooked |
Wildlife Attractant: | Bees Birds Butterflies |
Propagation: Seeds: | Stratify seeds: if starting indoors or can be winter sown outdoors or in unheated greenhouse Suitable for wintersowing Start indoors Can handle transplanting Other info: unblemished fruit must be significantly overripe; clean & dry seeds |
Propagation: Other methods: | Cuttings: Stem |
Pollinators: | Wind Various insects |
Containers: | Not suitable for containers |
Miscellaneous: | Dioecious |
In this episode, Dave and Trish talk about their favorite wild edible plants, the kinds of plants you might come across as you walk through the woods. Many of the plants on this list are sure to surprise you!
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Posted by flaflwrgrl (North Fl. - Zone 8b) on Nov 2, 2011 11:46 AM The tree prefers light, sandy, well-drained soil, but will grow in rich, southern, bottom lands. It can be grown in northern Ohio only with the greatest of care, and in southern Ohio its fruit is never edible until after frost. [ Reply to this comment | |
Posted by Sharon (Calvert City, KY - Zone 7a) on Nov 9, 2011 6:17 PM The seeds of the persimmon are large, brown and flat. [ Reply to this comment | |
Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Nov 9, 2017 7:27 PM A wonderful tree native to most of the South, even down into southern Florida, up into southern PA and New Jersey and southern IL, IN, and OH, most of MO, southeast KS and eastern OK & TX. It is slow growing, about 3/4 to 1 foot/year and lives around 100 years. Develops a strong, deep taproot, so it is hard to transplant; move as a small tree in spring. Likes acid soil of about pH 6 to 7 and well-drained or can grow well along water courses where the wet soil is aerated. The female trees bear the delicious orange berry; edible in September to November. I collected some of the large brown seed in late November of 2019, kept them in moist potting soil in a pot in the refrigerator until May, then they germinated in June when it got warm, and I had some good seedlings. [ Reply to this comment | |
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