I bought a hachiya persimmon tree last year. I spent years looking for one but every nursery just wanted to carry fuyu. Fuyu persimmons are great until you have a ripe hachiya. It’s like orange, pudding-consistency sugar in a spoon. If you are patient enough to wait for one….it is a treasure. To eat it …
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Mexican/Texas Persimmons
The ants eat these things down to nothing but a hollow shell moments before peak ripeness. I began picking them when black with a green ring around the top and then leaving them on the counter face down to protect from flies until fully ripened. They have greasy sticky flesh under a paper thin skin. …
Discovering Native Persimmon Trees
Since i moved onto the homestead 5 years ago there’s been a number of mystery trees that were bush sized with oak like leaves but kept their leaves even when the oaks dropped theirs. I’ve always wondered what these trees were but they were too young to produce anything so there were no clues for …