Plant: Giant Fuyu - Persimmon Tree

Plant description

Japanese persimmon is a dense, erect and rounded fruiting tree of 20 to 30 feet tall and 15 to 25 feet wide with low maintenance needs. Creamy white female flowers and pinkish male clusters open in mid April, followed by 3 to 4 inch globular orange fruit that is edible, showy and may persist into winter. The glossy oval leaves reach 6 inches long and turn gold, orange and red in fall, and the brownish gray bark is deeply furrowed into rectangular plates. Give it full sun of six or more hours a day in a moist, well drained neutral soil. It suits an Asian garden, an edible garden or a winter garden, and works as a hedge or screen. Fruit drop makes it messy, and scale, mealybug and leaf spot can occur.

Flowers

Female flowers appear solitary and are creamy white; male flowers are in clusters of three and are pinkish, opening in mid April.

Foliage

Oval leaves are up to 6 inches long and 4 inches wide; new leaves are yellow green and turn glossy green in summer.

Fruit

The 3 to 4 inch orange fruit is globular to oval and shows eight lighter coloured lines when cut across the middle; it may persist into winter.

Bark & stems

Brownish gray bark, deeply fissured or furrowed into rectangular or square plates, over gray stems that may be hairy.

Native range

India and Asia

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