Persimmon: 5 types of persimmon fruit and our favorite ones!

November is Persimmon picking & Persimmon eating time. Check out our FIVE types of persimmons and, what our favorites are!

November is also the month we say thank you to US Veterans and, enjoy Thanksgiving!

Chapter descriptions
00:00 intro
00:54 Wase Fuyu (Matsumoto)
02:20 Nikitas Gift
04:13 Rosseyanka
06:40 Fuyu
08:03 Kasandra
08:51 Beautyberry!
09:31 OVERVIEW of all 5 persimmon fruit!

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Wase Fuyu “Matsumoto”, Asian Persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 6-9, to 10-12 feet tall.
Fruit: non-astringent, large round fruit, and with seeds (and sometimes, NO seeds). High sugar content.

Nikitas Gift, Hybrid Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana x kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 5-9, to 10-12 feet tall.
Fruit: astringent (pick when soft), round fruit, and with seeds.

Rosseyanka, Hybrid Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana x kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 5-8, to 15-25+ feet tall.
Fruit: astringent, relatively small and round fruit. We’ve read that she’s WITHOUT seeds!

Fuyu persimmon, Asian Persimmon (Diospyros kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 8-10, to 15-25+ feet tall.
Fruit: non-astringent, relatively small and round fruit.

Texas Persimmon, UNIQUELY American (Diospyros texana)
Grow in zones 7-9, and produces very small round fruit.
At this time we do not know if it’s self-fertile, how tall she grows, or astringency and, if the fruit is without seeds.

Kasandra, Hybrid Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana x kaki)
Self-fertile, grow in zones 5b-9.
At this time we do not know if it’s self-fertile, how tall she grows, or astringency and, if the fruit is without seeds.

PERSIMMON TREE
the Persimmon tree is native to North America, and grows very well in zone 7. the Persimmon tree is a forgiving, versatile and low maintenance fruit tree. it grows in Zone 4 to 9 (NOT all persimmon varieties grow in chilly-willy, zone 4). its long taproot makes it good for erosion control. some varieties are more visually appealing – the Nakitas Gift is a short stocky tree with beautiful shinny dark green leaves. on the other hand, our Wase Fuyu (Matsumoto) Persimmon grows … kind of funky and small and gangly but produced about 60 blooms at only 3-4 years old (we picked-off all but 5 blooms).

the fruit’s nutritional value is OUTSTANDING. according to one NIH article: “Persimmon is naturally bestowed with bioactive molecules including proanthocyanidins, flavonoids, tannins, phenolic, carotenoids, dietary fiber, and etc. Persimmon leaves and fruit have imperative significance for coronary health because of hypocholesterolemic, anti-atherosclerosis and antioxidant perspectives….”

there are many varieties of Persimmon trees. American native and American cultivars (Diospyros virginiana); Asian cultivars (Diospyros kaki) and hybrid crosses between the American and Asian cultivars (Diospyros virginiana x kaki). hybrids allow us to select the Persimmon tree with the best range of traits (flavor, fruit size, tree size, astringency [astringent or non- astringent], seedless, self-fertile, etc.).

YouTube Playlist on Persimmon:

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