Persimmon Scientific Name: Diospyros virginiana
Description: A slender southern tree with wide-spreading branches, commonly 40-60' but under favorable conditions 110' high with a trunk diameter of 2 or more feet. Bark sepia brown or grayish brown, somewhat corky, deeply scored or furrowed into coarse rectangular plates, with a scarcely perceptible perpendicular trend, the limbs ascending, the branches rather slender.
Habitat: Common in fields and open woods.
Range: Connecticut south to Florida, west to Alabama and Kansas.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
