American Persimmon, an Emerging Horticultural Crop
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1973.27.1.16Abstract
"The plummes are of two kindes, red and gray, of the making and bignesse of nuts, and have three or foure stones in them. They are better than all the plummes of Spaine, and they make farre better prunes of them." This Elizabethan English of Hakluyt (1607), translating the Spanish chronicle of the De Soto expedition some 60 years earlier, gives us one of the earliest accounts of the American persimmon, Diospyros virginianaL. (Page 169 of the 1851 eidtion).
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