Posted: 11/30/2015 6:02:27 PM EDT
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This is the first year my tree bared any persimmons. I have to say it must
have been close to 50 years since the last time I ate one. It is a good tasting fruit, some sweetness and a texture that would fall between a banana and an apple. It has to be real ripe. 
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I have never developed a taste for them. The only purpose I ever found was to attract deer..... Yea it was a game of chess between me and the deer. I would like the fruit to ripe on the tree but then the deer will get them. I beat them this time. About 2 years ago was my first pear crop and they won the chess match  .
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Persimmon Pudding
2 C persimmon pulp 2 C sugar 2 eggs 1 C Half N Half 1 C buttermilk 1 3/4 C Flour 1/3 C butter 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp Baking soda 1 dash cinnamon Preheat oven to 325 Mix the pulp, sugar & eggs Sift the flour and the baking powder together Mix the buttermilk, cream & baking soda together add the cream mixture / flour mixture in equal amounts to pulp mixture, add cinnamon - blend till smooth Melt butter & coat a 13 x 9 baking dish, pour remaing butter into mixture & stir... add mixture to pan & bake 60 min. Serve with whipped cream / cool whip. I literally just typed that out from memory - I make it every yr for thanksgiving - so it was fresh in my mind..... You can thank me later. 
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I know where there are some native persimmon trees. They're way too tall pick the fruit by hand and the critters get them as soon as they hit the ground. And here's another wild, native American fruit for you. 
http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=80829 Paw-Paws! Very scarce in my area of central MO. The Conservation Commission is selling seedlings this year and I'm going to plant some at the ranch. |
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Quoted: Just as a neat fact, The American persimmon tree is the Only fruit native to North America. No offense, but no. Persimmons, pawpaws, mayhaws, blackberries, dewberries, huckleberries, muscadines, black cherries.... and that's just a few around here. Edit: I was beated. |
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Just as a neat fact, The American persimmon tree is the Only fruit native to North America. Technically, the fruit of the persimmon is a berry, just like a tomato is a berry. The acorn is the fruit of the oak tree. Fruit is a generic term. A neater fact is that persimmon is dioecious; meaning that individual trees are either male or female. Male trees will never bear fruit, and female trees will never produce pollen. Persimmon is in the same family as ebony, Ebenaceae. |
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I have some trees on my property. The fruit is small, anywhere from an inch to maybe 1.5 inches in diameter in a good year. Of course, the trees are so loaded down in a good year that the limbs bend down a couple/three feet till the fruit falls off.
The deer do come up and eat them. So do my dogs. Our border collie would eat them to the point where her crap looked like nothing but seeds. My two bird dog mixes had no use for them. The hound dog never bothered with them till I got my latest pound puppy. He bee lines down there to pick them up off the ground and now she's doing the same. It's a game between them, racing around and eating up all the persimmons. It's like candy to them, they eat everyone they can find. The store bought ones are much larger. Maybe those are the Asian type. |
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I had to do more research on them. I want to plant a second tree. got to do it this year because
I am not growing younger. Here is a good quick read on them, the native and Oriental types. http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/361/#b |
I think you might have been misled about that.
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I know where there are some native persimmon trees. They're way too tall pick the fruit by hand and the critters get them as soon as they hit the ground. And here's another wild, native American fruit for you.
http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=80829 I missed those again this year. The wildlife down here gets them fast once they ripen. Not too fast if you have them close, but I've gotta drive to get some. Still after some seeds of those--and of native persimmons. I love both. |