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Diospyros kaki 'Chocolate' - 'Chocolate' Japanese Persimmon - Excellent pollinator.  Medium-sized fruits are oblong-cylindrical with rounded apex.  Tasty, juicy, chocolate-brown flesh is astringent until fully ripe.

Diospyros kaki 'Fuyu' - 'Fuyu' Japanese Persimmon - Excellent pollinator.  Medium to large fruits are non-astringent even when firm, deep tomato-red and glossy.  Flesh is light orange.  The leading commercial variety.

Diospyros kaki 'Maru' - 'Maru' Japanese Persimmon - Medium-sized fruits are non-astringent, orange-red, broad, with a rounded apex.  Flesh is dark-cinnamon, sweet, with a rich quality.

Diospyros kaki 'Matsumoto Wase' - 'Matsumoto Wase' Japanese Persimmon - A recently-introduced variety with large, rounded non-astringent fruits.  The melting flesh is sweet.  Matures earlier than 'Fuyu'.

Diospyros kaki 'Meakawa Jiro' - 'Meakawa Jiro' Japanese Persimmon - Large to very large fruits are non-astringent, four-sided and orange-yellow with glossy skin and characteristic shallow grooves on the surface.  Matures one week before 'Fuyu'.

Diospyros kaki 'Nishimura Wase' - 'Nishimura Wase' Japanese Persimmon - Medium to large fruits are non-astringent and orange-red.  This new variety is the earliest to ripen and has very sweet, chocolate-brown flesh.

Diospyros palmeri - Mexican Persimmon - Tree - 

Diospyros texensis - Texas Persimmon - Tree -

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