Morris Burton

Variety of Persimmon · Diospyros virginiana

Small fruit, but praised by many as the best-tasting American persimmon.

🇺🇸 USA 1940

Taste & characteristics

sweetaromatic

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Small deep-orange fruit with exceptionally rich, spicy-sweet flavour.

Cold-hardy tree of the northern race.

Reliable yields of small but flavourful fruit.

A flavour benchmark; usually needs a pollinator.

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