Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock the edge of a woodland

the edge of a woodland bed

Woodlanders offers the Changshou kumquat as an uncommon fruit worth wider trial in the milder Southeast

and Shikoku

Site the plant in moist

The plant is also a larval host for several checkerspot and painted lady species

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock the edge of a woodlandThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the