Meader
Variety of Persimmon · Diospyros virginiana
The classic self-fertile, ultra-hardy variety for short northern summers.
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5🇺🇸 USA 1968
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämlingsselektion der 90-Chromosomen-Rasse (Nordform)
- Breeder
- Elmer Meader (University of New Hampshire)
- Pollination
- dioecious – separate male and female plants
- Fruit weight
- 25 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small to medium orange-red fruit with sweet, low-astringency flesh softening even before first frost.
Growth
Robust, medium-vigour tree hardy to roughly -30 C.
Yield
Early and reliable bearer, ideal for northern climates.
Notes
Fully self-fertile, often parthenocarpic (seedless).
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