Persimmons

American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)
Astringent GRAFTED.
Small 12 to 24 inches tall $25.00: Medium 2 to 3 feet tall $30.00: Large trees 4 to 6 feet tall $40.00.

• H63A Claypool - Very heavy producer of disease resistance fruit. Has large weeping crown-not a strait up grower-with a hint of cinnamon flavored fruit. Low amount of seeds with nice bright orange colored fruit. Medium and large size available.
   
• Yates / Juhl - Large fruit; when ripe is parthenocarpic and will produce seedless fruit in the absence of a male persimmon tree. Very productive and vigorous grower. Small size available.
   
• Dollywood - Very heavy producer of large fruit, precocious, is not a large tree and has more spreading habits, has an excellent flavor, produces few seed. One of my personal favorites.
   
• Prok - Persimmon was a seedling From Cornell University breeding program grown out by John Gordon of Amherst NY. Produces very large fruit, ripens in August here in Kentucky, has few seed. It is my Favorite persimmon for cooking and eating out of hand. Ripens long before frost.
   

Asian Persimmon (Diospyros kaki) - These very fine persimmon have been tested and selected for many years. They select over many others for the taste, size and cold hardiness.
18 to 24 inches tall $25.00; Medium 2 to 3 feet tall $30.00; Large 3 to 5 feet tall $40.00

• Hokkaido - Diospyros Kaki Persimmon. Cold hardy in zone 6, has never had freeze damage here in Eastern Kentucky. Hokkaido is a natural dwarf. At 8 years old this tree is only 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide and is a natural fruit producing male to use as a pollinator for other trees too. Fruit shape is conical shaped like an acorn, bright orange with a blush of red, smooth flesh and is very slow to lose astringency, fruit size is 3.5 inches across by 4 inches long. Cold hardy Zone 6. Large size available.
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  Hokkaido persimmon

  Hokkaido branch

• Shin Na Da - D. kaki Persimmon. Conical shaped yellowish orange fruit. Ripens mid-September. When tree ripens at picking time, fruit will be non-astringent on the tree, very firm and ready to eat. Tree has vigorous upright growth habits and will bear fruit in 3 to 5 years. Fruit is 3 inches across. Cold hardy Zone 6. Medium and large sizes available.
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  Shin Na Da persimmon

  Shin Na Da persimmon

• Rojo Brillante - Just off the post entry quarantine list, this very large fruit developed in Spain has a conical fruit shape like Hachiya persimmon. The fruit, when rip, is very firm and sweet and quickly loses the astringency. The best for taste and color. Has a deep orange color with red blush. Zone 7
   
• Rosseyanka -Virginiana X Kaki persimmon, A Russian hybrid and is a development of Nikitsky Botanical Gardens of Yalta. Large fruit 2 to 3 inches that is nearly seedless and tastes like Kaki persimmon, has been evaluated and grown in the USA for nearly 10 years. Recorded to withstand temperatures down in -20s in January 1996 in Indiana. Is very winter hardy. Cold hardy to Zone 5.
   
• Gwang Yang - NON-ASTRINGENT PERSIMMONA Korean persimmon cultivar. Bright orange, high quality fruit weighing about 5 to 6 oz. Ripens later--early October. Zones 6-9. Small and medium sizes available
   

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