AMERICAN PERSIMMON

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• Deciduous or evergreen trees grown partly for the handsome foliage and partly for their edible fruits.
   
• The few cultivated species are ornamental trees, lustrous foliage, rarely attacked by insects with decorative and edible fruit. The only species tolerable hardy North is D. Virginiana. D. Kaki, is cultivated in Japan for its large edible fruits, is hardy only in the southern states.
   
• Grows 50 ft, rarely to 100 ft.