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[nafex] Perfect-flowered persimmons



Lon wrote:
>There are also a few perfect flowered
> >persimmons.  On is Szukis (pronounced "shoe kiss") and another is one from
> >breeder Jim Claypool, his F-100.  I have both and have found the F-100 to be
> >the most reliable.  It is technically male, but it sets both small seedless
> >fruit and larger seeded fruit.  That is, it has both male flowers and some
> >perfect flowers on the same tree.

While I've not looked at it while in bloom, I have a local native persimmon 
I 'discovered' a couple of years back that produces mostly small (1-1.5") 
seedless fruits, and a moderate number (maybe 20%) of larger fruits - 
occasionally seedless, but usually containing a single seed.  I pulped out 
a gallon of fruit from this tree last fall and got about 30 seeds - usually 
I'd get that many out of a half-dozen fruits.  Seeds are 'plumper' than 
those of the typical persimmon.
No other persimmons within several hundred yards of this tree, as far as I 
can tell - it's growing in the fenceline of a cornfield along the highway.
Do you suppose this one would qualify as  polygamodioiecious, like Szukis 
or F-100?





>Graft some on your "Meader" and you will
> >get fruit on all the tree.
> >-Lon Rombough
> >Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, consulting, more, at
> >http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom >>
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Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY