Diospyros kaki, also called the persimmon, Oriental persimmon or kaki, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros. Although its first botanical description was not published until 1780, the kaki is among the oldest cultivated plants, having been in use in China for more than 2000 years. In some rural Chinese communities, the kaki fruit is seen as having a great mystical power that can be harnessed to cure headaches, back pains and foot ache.
Fruits of oval shape and slightly pointed towards the apex, of medium size and yellow-orange color, tending to bronze when ripe, between October and November. Sweet pulp of intense red color.
Maturation in October-November.
Fruits with a slightly flattened and square shape like that of apples, ripe in November, can be eaten as soon as they are picked, even with a hard consistency, slicing them with a knife like apples are sliced. Crunchy pulp with a sweet taste.
Maturation in early November.
Vigorous tree, with erect growth habit, it has an excellent grafting affinity with D.lotus, intense flowering and above all a high productivity. The fruit, of particularly large dimensions, has a conical shape, longitudinally elongated and transversely round. The peel takes on a beautiful red-orange color at the time of harvesting, then red when physiological ripening. Easily removable, the fruits have firm, yellow-orange flesh in the edible fruits at the time of harvest, orange-red in those made of halves.
Maturatioe in the second decade of October.
The fruit has large dimensions, with a rotatable shape both in longitudinal and transverse section. The peel is yellow-orange at harvest and intense orange at physiological ripeness. It is easily removable. The pulp is orange-bronze in color as it matures in the fecundated fruits, and intense orange, sometimes with dark specks in the unfertilized fruits; bronze in those fertilized at commercial maturation, liqueur-like, with a large central fibrous area and filaments present in large quantities.
Maturation in October.
Neapolitan Caco, one of the first fruit plants cultivated by man. Fruits with a rounded and slightly flattened shape, from yellow-orange, become reddish when ripe, in the months of October and November. Very sweet dark bronze pulp.
Maturation between October and November
