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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Perfect-flowered persimmons
  • Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:05:32 -0800

Sounds like a valuable find to me. Jerry Lehman is the guy collecting a lot
of those, but I wouldn't mind a scion or two, either, IF it ripens no later
than Early Golden, and hopefully earlier.
-Lon Rombough
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>From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
>To: nafex@egroups.com
>Subject: [nafex] Perfect-flowered persimmons
>Date: Tue, Jan 2, 2001, 6:29 AM
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>While I've not looked at it while in bloom, I have a local native persimmon
>I 'discovered' a couple of years back that produces mostly small (1-1.5")
>seedless fruits, and a moderate number (maybe 20%) of larger fruits -
>occasionally seedless, but usually containing a single seed. I pulped out
>a gallon of fruit from this tree last fall and got about 30 seeds - usually
>I'd get that many out of a half-dozen fruits. Seeds are 'plumper' than
>those of the typical persimmon.
>No other persimmons within several hundred yards of this tree, as far as I
>can tell - it's growing in the fenceline of a cornfield along the highway.
>Do you suppose this one would qualify as polygamodioiecious, like Szukis
>or F-100?

>Lucky Pittman
>USDA Zone 6
>Hopkinsville, KY
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