American:
Native persimmon species to America, hardy and attractive ornamental tree producing edible small fruit. Timber is highly valued.
Dai Dai Maru:
The rounded fruit is of medium sized, orange-red, glossy, with a slight bloom; has dark flesh, is not edible until fully ripe and soft; seedless unless cross-pollinated; bears good crops regularly. The tree is of semi-erect habit.
Flat Seedless (A):
A smooth textured, juicy fruit of excellent quality. Fruit is large flat shaped. One of the best Astringent varieties, has to be fully ripe to eat. Vigorous grower.
Fuyu:
The fruit is large and flat, orange-red in colour with a sweet, mild flavour. Semi-dwarf variety. Besides there delicious fruit Persimmons are highly ornamental with the beautiful autumn foliage. Non astringent, so can be eaten when still hard.
Hachiya:
A large conical fruit, deep orange / red in colour. Requires hot summers to ripen the fruit. Quite astringent until soft, very flavourful sweet fruit when fully ripe. Heavy producer and very attractive. Ripens late in the season. Self fertile. Requires approximately 200 chill hours. Astringent.
Ichikikijiro:
Large flat fruit of excellent quality. Being a dwarf variety it is well suited to backyards but is also a good commercial variety. Mostly seedless fruit, Non astringent.
Izu:
The earliest maturing of the non-astringent varieties. The medium-sized fruit has a burnt orange skin and soft flesh with a good amount of syrup. The flavour is delicious. The tree has slightly dwarfing characteristics. Sets a good crop.180-200 gms.
Jiro:
Has spectacular coloured fruit
Nightingale:
A deep-orange flesh that is very sweet and juicy when ripe. A conical large shape. Very high quality flesh that is most often seedless. Compact growing. Astringent
Twentieth Century (A):
An astringent persimmon with medium sized fruits. Excellent back yard tree, it is precocious and is delicious eaten fresh when fully ripe. The tree has particularly beautiful autumn colours in its foliage before the leaves drop for winter.
