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| Bloom Color | white |
|---|---|
| Bloom Period | Mid-June or Mid-September to Late-June or Late-October |
| Category, USDA | Dicot |
| Comment | Woods, wet to dry |
| Present in Plant Communities |
Gardens, meadows or lawns (G2) Marshes, swamps or floodplains (A1) Pine plantation (F2) Slope forest (C1) Thicket or young forest (B12,D1,D4,E1,E6,F6) Upland forest (B2,B3,B5,B7,B11) Upland forest, pines (D5) |
| Educational Notes | fruit orange, edible after frost |
| Family | Ebenaceae |
| Fibers Dyes, Ethnobotany | Not found in literature |
| Foods, Ethnobotany | Edible fruit, beer |
| Fruit Color Mature | orange/yellow |
| Fruit Period | Late-September to Mid-November |
| Germination Code | B |
| Growth Rate | slow to medium |
| Habit | Tree |
| Habitat | open woods, floodplains, and old fields; S |
| Habitat | Thickets, old fields |
| Hardiness Zone | 4a |
| Height | 35-60 |
| Medicine, Ethnobotany | Sore throat, toothaches, heartburn |
| MPA Species IDs | 1596 |
| North American Federations, Ethnobotany | Seminole, Cherokee, Rappahannock |
| Native | Yes |
| Other , Ethnobotany | Not found in literature |
| Other Common Names | Persimmon |
| Plant Culture | Prefers to grow in sun to part shade in moist to dry well-drained sandy soil. Female trees need a male pollinator to set fruit. |
| Present in Plant Surveys | Ogle, partial survey 1992 Ebert - Holt, 1998 - 1999 Brighton-Longbottom, 2018 |
| Predominant Habit | Tree |
| Range | CT to FL. west to KS, TX |
| Seed Type | berry |
| Soil Moisture | Moist - dry |
| Species ID Ghini | 9763 |
| Spread | 35.0 |
| Status, Ethnobotany | Complete |
| Sun Exposure | Sun - part shade |
| Synonym Scientific Names | Diospyros mosieri, Diospyros virginiana var. mosieri, Diospyros virginiana var. platycarpa, Diospyros virginiana var. pubescens, Diospyros virginiana var. virginiana |
| USDA Synonym Symbols | DIMO7, DIVIM2, DIVIP2, DIVIP3, DIVIV4 |
| Use | An attractive, durable tree. Small when grown in thickets on dry banks or woodland edges. Fragrant flowers, attractve foliage and bark, edible, orange fruit on female trees. |
| Mapped Plant Accessions | 1900.0022.1989 1900.0022.1990 1900.0022.1991 2005.0020.48 2005.0020.52 |
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