(Diosporyos species) Both Asian and American persimmons are very beautiful trees that produce delicious, sweet orange fruit. All the trees we offer are grafted and will have superior quality fruit on an early bearing tree. We can ship only Izu, Coffee Cake, Chocolate, Hachiya, and Jiro to CA. We offer 3-5' trees.
Round and flat with an orange skin and sweet mild flesh. It is a non-astringent type, great eaten while firm. Doesn't need a pollinizer. Needs a long hot summer to ripen reliably.
Choice of connoisseurs. Medium size red, conical, astringent type fruit develops sweet, spicy brown flesh when pollinized by another variety of Asian persimmon. Can be ripened off tree. The best pollinizer for the Nishimura Wase Coffee Cake variety.
(Nishimura wase) A richly flavored variety that ripens a month before Fuyu. It ripens in climates with summers too cool to consistently ripen Fuyu. The fruit is large and roundish. The tree is vigorous and easy to grow. It is called Coffee Cake for its rich flavor and brown flesh color when ripe. It is a non astringent pollination variant which means it develops its rich sweet flavor best when it is pollinized. Chocolate is the best pollinizer.
The variety most often found in stores. The 4' long acorn shaped fruit is deep orange when ripe and very sweet and flavorful. Great dried. Astringent until ripened off the tree and eaten when soft. Doesn't need a pollinizer.
Round and flat with an orange skin and sweet mild flesh. It is a non-astringent type, great eaten while firm. Doesn't need a pollinizer. Needs a long hot summer to ripen reliably.
A hardy as the American persimmon and as large as the Asian, Nikita's large crops of 2-1/2inch, flattish, red-orange fruit are certainly gifts. When fully ripe and soft, this second-generation hybrid persimmon is sweet and flavorful. Fall foliage is a gorgeous orange color. From Nikita Botanic Garden in Yalta. It is self-fertile. On D. virginiana rootstock.
