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[Rosholdt <rosholdt@erols.com>]

Excuse me, but the name is, after all,  Diospyros _virginiana_.  Did you 
think maybe they might be growing in Virginia?  Didn't see it on the list.
Well they are, wild and cultivated.  And they were in Ohio, too.

Barbara Rosholdt
Z7
Virginia

Subject:
[NAFEX] persimmons... where are you growing them?
From:
mangodance <bmn@iglou.com>
Date:
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:09:25 -0400

To:
North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>


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.