Early Golden
Variety of Persimmon · Diospyros virginiana
Historic foundational variety, parent of many modern cultivars.
🇺🇸 USA 1880
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- 60-Chromosomen-Rasse (Suedform)
- Breeder
- Eingefuehrt in Illinois
- Pollination
- dioecious – separate male and female plants
- Fruit weight
- 25 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium golden-orange fruit with sweet, aromatic flesh.
Growth
Medium-vigour tree of the southern 60-chromosome race; needs a longer season.
Yield
Reliable, early ripening for the southern race.
Notes
Partly self-fertile; genetic basis of many breeding lines.
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