Persimmons
Persimmons from Dave Wilson Nursery will add seasonal color to you landscape.
All Persimmons are Edible Ornamentals: decorative trees that are perfectly complimentary to your edible landscape.
Fuyu - Jiro ("Apple Persimmon")
Medium size, flat shape, still hard when ripe, non-astringent. Cool or hot climate. Hardy, attractive tree, practically pest free. Fall harvest. 200 hours. Self-fruitful.
Hachiya
Large, deep orange-red, acorn-shaped. Hot summer required to mature the fruit. Sweet, flavorful, astringent til soft-ripe. Mature fruit can be frozen and thawed to ripen. Productive, ornamental. 200 hours. Self-fruitful.
Chocolate
Small to medium size, oblong, bright red skin. Sweet, spicy, firm, brown flesh, superb flavor-the choice of connoisseurs. Astringent until ripe. Good pollenizer for Coffeecake™ (Nishimura Wase). 200 hours. Self-fruitful.
Coffeecake™ (Nishimura Wase)
Unique spicy-sweet flavor that instantly evokes images of cinnamon pastry, hot coffee and morning sunshine. Coffeecake™ ripens about the same time as Chocolate and about three weeks to one month earlier than Fuyu. Coffeecake™ Persimmon is non-astringent and can be eaten while still firm. Hardy, attractive tree, practically free of pests and disease. Estimated chilling requirement: 200 hours or less. Another persimmon variety required as a pollinizer. Gosho or Chocolate are the best pollenizers for Coffeecake™.
Giant Fuyu
Larger, not so flat as Fuyu. Crunchy when ripe like Fuyu. Sweet, flavorful, non-astringent. Easy to grow, cool or hot climates. Fall harvest. 200 hours. Self-fruitful. Compare Giant Fuyu to Fuyu
Izu
Very sweet, tasty, non-astringent fruit ripens about three weeks before Fuyu. Medium to large size, round shape. Relatively small tree, good choice for backyard persimmon. Sometimes difficult to start from bareroot. 100 hours. Self-fruitful.
Maru
Medium size, orange-red, round fruit. Beautiful glossy skin. If cross-pollenized, flesh is dark cinnamon color and seeded. Very sweet, rich flavor, excellent quality. 200 hours. Self-fruitful.
Nishimura
Large, almost round fruit with sweet, juicy, non-astringent, chocolate-colored flesh. Ripens very early, about one month before Fuyu. 100 hours. Another persimmon variety required to pollenize.
Tamopan
Large, flat-shaped fruit with thick, reddish-orange skin and light orange flesh. Flesh is astringent until soft-ripe. Vigorous, heavy-bearing tree. 200 hours. Self-fruitful.
