The event, which has skipped only one year (2020) since 1947, is timed to the ripening and release of the American persimmon. Some folks mark the season by the pileup of fruit in their yards and ...
And there before me on our picnic stop was of the largest specimens of the American Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana that I have ever seen. This tree was old, over fifty feet tall with the gray ...
The key is choosing a persimmon that is ripe and ready to eat. The experience of eating a persimmon that isn't quite ready can be akin to trying to consume a sweet yet dense cotton ball.
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