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Despite the ripe fruit’s excellent flavor, there has been little effort made to improve the native persimmon and to grow it commercially, although some efforts were made in the last century.
Apparently little of the wild fruit reaches the market. Perhaps these reasons account for the little awareness of the persimmon.
The wild persimmon tree grows 30 to 50 feet in height. The round fruit, more like a berry, contains four to eight seeds, and varies from one to one and a half inches in diameter. When the fruit is ripe, it is wrinkled and often appears to be on the verge of spoiling.
Trees spring from seeds distributed by animals and birds that eat
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