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["Harrick, Barbara" <b.harrick@ilslaunch.com>]

Hi all. We had a neighbor in the Mt. Vernon area of Northern Virginia
that had persimmon trees--my Mom used to go gather them every year.

Barbara Harrick zone 6b

Barbara Harrick
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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:09:25 -0400
From: mangodance <bmn@iglou.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] persimmons... where are you growing them?
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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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.