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 Moonshine Persimmon Description

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A great Hybrid Persimmon Variety, Hillbilly Moonshine Persimmon has 3cm diameter fruit that becomes very sweet and very deep amber orange colour when ripe, with a delicious taste that melts in your mouth. This and Vixen are our two favourites.

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Commonly called the American persimmon, common persimmon, eastern persimmon, simmon, possumwood, possum apples, or sugar plum. It ranges from southern Connecticut/Long Island to Florida, and west to Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma & Kansas. American persimmon trees are very common in the South Atlantic, Gulf states and especially near the Mississippi River.

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American persimmon fruit are round or oval and orange-yellow. They range in size from 2cm to 6cm in diameter and fruits ripen in late fall or early winter.

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Other persimmon worthy varieties worth looking into: Barbras Blush, Chinebuli, Vixen, Prok, Dar Sopvheivki, Gora Roman Kosh, Claypool H-63, Nikitas Gift.

 

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