Persimmon
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| Persimmon
Tree Facts |
Scientific
Name: |
Diospyrus
virginiana
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Foliage: |
Dark
green
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Mature
Height: |
30-50'
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Mature
Spread: |
20-35'
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Soil: |
Moist
well drained
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Zones: |
4-9
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Moisture: |
Prefers
moist, tolerates dry
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The
leaf is rather leathery and dark green without teeth on the margin.
Its average length is about 4 inches. The tree is well known for
its delicious orange fruit and bark, resembling alligator hide.
Fruit, buds and leaves are a source of food for deer, opossum, gray
and fox squirrel, quail, raccoon, wild turkey, red and gray fox
and coyote. Many birds make persimmon fruit a part of their diet.
It is very important as a wildlife food. Persimmon wood is hard
and dense. It is used for golf club heads, handles for files and
carving tools, billiard cues, shuttles and mallets. Plant a persimmon
at the woodland's edge or in an open field.
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