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August 13, 2004
A Note About Persimmons
Well since I took an excursion outdoors to get my mind off the bad weather heading for Florida, and since the weather was so begging me to go outside, I took a little walk to my crabapples to see if they had ripened, they hadn't though they are turning a greenish yellow color. I causually took a gander to see if I could find the wild persimmons we had found last year and imagine my surprise when I did! I can now identify the tree by its leaves, since they look simliar to our hickory leaves. The leaves are smaller than hickory leaves, but they have simliar browish spots on them, and look slightly crinkled around the edges. 
Most of the fruit is still green but a few that get more sunlight are turning a pinkish red color. The picture to the right is of the the wild persimmons that are beginning to ripen. Then I went and looked at our ripening japanese persimmons which are much larger than thier wild counterparts. 
They should turn a dark orange color when they ripen if I am not mistaken. The image at the left is of the ripening japanese persimmons.
Comments (1)
Chari:I LOVE Japanese persimmons! Have you ever eaten them? They are far different than regular persimmons, you eat them when they are still hard and frim, whereas the other, you have to wait for them to be quite soft and squishy.
That wild persimmon almost looks like a plum. Our persimmon tree loses all it's leaves before the fruit ripens and all you see are these orange balls hanging from branches. Mmm another signal Fall is on it's way...baking persimmon cookies!
Posted by Chari | August 22, 2004 1:09 AM
Posted on August 22, 2004 01:09
