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["S & E Hills" <ehills7408@wowway.com>]

I’ve got a Kaki persimmon that I planted a couple years back here in Michigan.  It has survived winters fine, but it is still small and has not yet fruited for me.

 

My neighbor immediately knew what it was (and he’s not reallly a gardener).  He is from the area and told me that growing up his neighbor had a persimmon tree in his yard (an american persimmon from the description of the fruit).  He said that the tree was big and he recalls each year getting fruit from it.  He said that the house burned down years after he left home and the tree was gone the next time he drove by.

 

 

Btw…I am about ½ a mile from Lake Saint Clair, about 5 miles north of the border of the city of Detroit (which means I live north of Windsor, Ontario). 

 

 

Scott Hills

Michigan zone 6

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of bluestem_farm@juno.com
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:46 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] persimmons... where are you growing them?

 

I had a friend in Cottage Grove, WI (just east of Madison) who had planted a grove of D. americana that was growing well.  The year that I visited in the fall the trees had quite a few fruits.  I believe he said that they fruited regularly, although the fall to the ground was far enough that most of them got smashed when they landed.  I took some home and started the seeds, but the seedlings still in the pot (above ground) didn't survive their first winter so I can't say if they would have grown here just north of Madison.  I'm pretty sure that  I bought some Am. persimmon cultivars from One Green World when I first moved here.  They died, but that may have been from neglect rather than the climate.

Muffy Barrett
Baraboo, WI

-- mangodance <bmn@iglou.com> wrote:

Hello folks. As some of you know, I'm working on a sort of online
non-commercial repository for everything persimmon-related. While I'm
focusing on Diospyros virginiana, I'll be adding some asian persimmon
content as well.

I was wondering if some folks here might lend a hand. It was an
extremely important food historically. As settlers expanded throughout
the US, many times, so did their plants.

The USDA database has a failry broad "natural" range. It lists the
following states as part of the range:

AL
AR
DC
DE
FL
GA
IA
IL
IN
KS
KY
LA
MD
MO
MS
NC
NE
NJ
NY
OH
OK
PA
RI
SC
TN
TX
WV

It also lists UT, but I would tend to think it's more due to settlement.

Anyway, I can confirm common persimmons being grown (and producing
usable fruit) in these additional states (off the top of my head):

CA
ID
OR
UT

also the following non-US countries:

Canada (Ontario)
Spain
France
UK (England)

Do any of you grow this in an area not mentioned above?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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