
Common Persimmon
- Botanical Name
- Diospyros virginiana
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 9
- Height
- 35 to 50
- Width
- 20 to 35 feet
- Flowers
- Late spring to early summer: small, urn shaped, creamy white, fragrant
- Fruit
- Edible after frost, yellowish to pale orange 1 to 1.5 inch berry
- Fall Color
- Yellow to reddish-purple
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well drained,
- Planting & Care
- Tolerant of a wide range of soil moisture and pH levels
- Drought, pollution and juglone tolerant
- Taproot can make transplanting difficult
- Transplant in early spring
- Most trees are dioecious, meaning each tree produces male or female flowers
- Female trees need a male pollinator in order to set fruit
- Remove root suckers if colonization is not desired
- Problems
- None serious
- Varieties
- Meader - extremely hardy, will fruit without a pollinator, 30 to 40 feet, good fall color, developed at the University of New Hampshire
- John Rick
- Early Golden - large sweet fruit, often self-fertile, early maturing
- Garrettson - high quality, early ripening fruit
- Killen - very productive
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