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Common Persimmon Diospyros virginiana 25 fLOATED SEEDS.cOLLECTED 10/19/22 CLEANED 10/20/22. I will keep refrigerated until sending usps I cannot guarantee germination. Timber Tree Specimen Tree Wildlife Food Drought Tolerant Plant Bonsai Plant with Winter Interest Flowering Tree Heat Tolerant Fragrant Flowering Plant Edible Fruit or Nut Plant Fall Color Crop Plant Urban Tolerant Plant Growing Info, follow in order: Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours. Stratification: cold stratify for 90 days. Germination: sow seed 3/4″ deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed. sow 1″ deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed. Grown for its yellow or orange fruit, to 1 1/2″, in fall; the sexes are usually on separate trees, male flowers very fragrant; leaves dark green, often shiny, turning yellow, yellow-green, or purple in fall; handsome black bark in rough squares; likes full sun, tolerates drought and city conditions; good, strong, close-grained wood and a popular food with wildlife; native from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas and KansasFruit – raw, cooked or dried and used in breads, cakes, pies, puddings etc. About the size of a plum, the fruit has an exquisitely rich flavour when it is fully ripe (and almost at the point of going bad) but it is very harsh and astringent before then. The fruit may not ripen properly in a cool summer, though if it is frosted it normally develops a very good flavour. The fruit can also be harvested in the autumn, preferably after a frost, and bletted. (This is a process where the fruit is kept in a cool place and only eaten when it is very soft and almost at the point of going rotten). Much of the fruit on trees in a relatively sunny position at Kew after a relatively warm summer in 1996 was still not fully ripe, though it was very nearly so and ripened well off the tree. The fruit can also be dried and used in bread, cakes etc. The fruit is up to 4.5cm in diameter. Molasses can be made from the fruit pulp. An oil obtained from the seeds is said to taste like peanut oil. A tea is made from the dried leaves. It is high in vitamin C and has a pleasant flavour somewhat like sassafras. The roasted seed is used as a coffee substitute.