Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. Tags: #fragrant #deciduous #rain garden #interesting bark #wildlife plant #native tree #moths #medicinal #showy fruits #food source wildlife #highly beneficial coastal plants #cpp #wind tolerant #fire low flammability #NC native #foxes #black bears #deer resistant #nighttime garden #children's garden #playground plant #edible fruits #fruits fall #pollinator plant #Braham Arboretum #fantz #larval host plant #food source fall #food source herbage #food source nectar #food source pollen #Coastal FAC #Piedmont Mountains FAC #bird friendly #mammals #food source soft mast fruit #butterfly friendly #moth larvae #ebh #ebh-fn #hickory horndevil moth #vhfn #vhfn-f #landscape plant sleuths courseįorm Magnus Manske CC BY-SA 3.0 Ripe Fruit Katja Schulz CC BY 2.0 Male Flowers - May - Cabarrus Co., NC Mark Robinson CC BY 4.0 Fall color Daderot CC0 1.0 Flower and leaves USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab CC0 Leaves and fruit Fritz Flohr Reynolds CC BY-NC 2.0 leaves Jean-Pol GRANDMONT CC BY 3.0 leaves Fritzflohrreynolds CC BY-SA 3.0 in the landscape in fall in Moore County Susan Strine CC BY 2.0 form in spring Brunswick Nature Park skdavidson CC-BY-SA 2.0 NC Cooperative Extension and NHC Arboretum Male flowers Joanne Brichetto CC BY-NC 4.0 Male Staminate Flowers - May - Cabarrus Co., NC Mark Robinson CC BY 4.0 Underside of leaf and female flower Robert H. Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Woodland Backyard Garden Walk Cultivars / Varieties:Ĭonsidered one of the best native persimmons VIDEO Created by Elisabeth Meyer for " Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Nuts" a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems: Leaf spot may occur. Fruit can stay on the tree after the leaves have fallen unaffected by freezing temperatures, giving an attractive addition to a winter garden. With spectacular autumn foliage and fruit that extends the harvest late into the fall, they are an excellent addition to an edible landscape. Thus, it can be placed in many types of gardens: a butterfly, children's, native, nighttime, pollinator, or rain garden. It can be grown as an ornamental or fruit tree in the home landscape, or in naturalized areas for wildlife. It has a thick, dark gray bark that is divided by furrows into square blocks resembling a checkerboard, sometimes called “alligator bark.” Fall leaf color ranges from yellow to orange to bright red. Another distinctive characteristic of this tree is its bark. That is because this tree never goes fully dormant.
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It may take as many as 10 years for trees to come into full production.īranches do not contain terminal buds. A new leaf forms where a terminal bud usually appears. Trees propagated from seeds begin producing fruit in 4-9 years.
American persimmons will not bear fruit right away. The tree can be propagated by grafting, root cutting, or seed, but a deep taproot makes it difficult to transplant. Under poor conditions, the tree may maintain a 15-foot shrub-like appearance. It will tolerate hot, dry conditions, poor soils, urban conditions, and wind.
Persimmon grows best in moist, well-drained, sandy soils in full sun to partial shade. The fruit has a distinctive beak at the base of the fruit.
The fruits are very sweet when ripe and are a food source for many birds and mammals. Persimmons are dioecious, meaning there are separate male and female trees, and you need both in order to get fruit. The persimmon flowers in spring to early summer and produces fruits in the fall.
The name persimmon comes from 'putchamin', a phonetic rendering of the name used by the Algonquin tribe of the American Indians. It is native to the central and eastern United States and can reach 30 to 80 feet high and 20 to 35 feet wide. Phonetic Spelling dy-OS-pe-res ver-jin-ee-AY-nah DescriptionĪmerican persimmon is a woody, deciduous tree in the Ebenaceae (ebony) family.
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