Persimmon, American--Coming Soon
    	
  • Current Height: 1-2 feet
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  • Mature Height: 35 – 60 feet
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  • Growth Rate: Slow to medium (under 12” to 24” per year)
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  • Light: Full sun to part shade
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  • Soil: Dry to medium
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  • Deer Resistant: Yes
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  • One or two for fruit: Usually two
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  • Landscape uses: Ornamental landscape tree that produces an edible fruit; also well suited for parks and naturalized areas
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  • Fun fact: The wood is used for golf-club heads and furniture veneer, and it is one of the easiest trees to identify in winter because of the way its thick, dark gray bark breaks into rectangles.
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  • Photo: Creative Commons

Persimmon, American--Coming Soon

SKU: DV01-SS
$35.00Price
3 Gallons

  • Pollinator value: Very High

    Special value to native bees; larval host for the Luna moth and Hickory Horned Devil, which is among the largest of the native caterpillars -- about the size of a hot dog (Featured Creatures, University of Florida Entomology & Nematology)

    The persimmon's edible fruit, about the size of a quarter, is deliciously sweet and often compared to the flavor of dates.  It can be eaten raw or made into cakes and drinks. Fragrant, white to greenish-yellow flowers bloom in late spring.  The persimmon's leaves turn yellow-green in the fall, and the trunk becomes deeply grooved as the tree matures.