Details for: DDIO 72, Diospyros virginiana L., DDIO 72

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Diospyros virginiana L.

Top Name:

DDIO 72

Origin:

Collected – Pennsylvania, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

30 Oct 1962

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Diospyros virginiana L.

Top Name:

DDIO 72

Origin:

Collected – Pennsylvania, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

30 Oct 1962

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Collected

Pennsylvania, United States
Locality: Collected in Lancaster from F. Jones Nursery.

Donated

30 October 1962.
New York, United States

Donor(s):

Slate, G.L., New York Agr. Exp. Sta.

Accession Names and Identifiers

DDIO 72

Type: Site identifier

G 12457

Type: Site identifier

Narrative

Seed from Diospyros virginiana. Var. 'Garretson' Persimmon. Some winter injury (dark black) after severe winter (-24 degrees Farenheit but recovers). Parent fruit flatish, globular. 2.9 cm X 3.4 cm, greenish yellow to orange as they ripen. 2 to 5 seeds per fruit. Flesh astringent when not fully mature, but astringency completely disappears when completely ripe. Seeds large, brown, flat, three bowed sides - 1.2cm X 0.4cm. Seed not wrinkled on flat sides. Fruits are faintly reddish tinted on shoulders and toward stem end. Skin is somewhat translucent and covered with waxy bloom. Calyx is green, striated radially, pan-shaped, flat depression in center with five rounded, blunt lobes. Lobes of calyx usually recurved. Blossom end of fruit is sharp and tapering.

Diospyros virginiana L.

Genus:

Diospyros

Family:

Ebenaceae

Nomen number:

14329

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1057. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

06/06/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Diospyros mosieri S. F. Blake

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	American persimmon	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	persimmon	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	plaqueminier d'Amérique	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Persimone	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	caqui de Virginia	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	caqui silvestre	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	persimon	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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