Live Plants
American Persimmon
by Food Forest Nursery · United States
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American Persimmon (also known as Common Persimmon; Diospyros virginiana ) is a wide-canopied native tree bearing small honey-sweet orange fruit — richly flavored and jelly-soft when fully ripe — used fresh, in puddings and pies, or dried, with striking
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yellow-to-purple fall color. It grows in USDA hardiness zones 4-9 and AHS heat zones 1-9 , needs 100-200 chill hours , and is dioecious — these are unsexed seedlings, so plant several to get both sexes, or choose a self-fruitful cultivar such as Meader Persimmon or Prok Persimmon . 1-2′ Bare Root Seedling Tree Propagation: Seedling (own-root) Can’t be shipped to: CA