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Re: [nafex] Perfect-flowered persimmons



Sounds interesting to me also.
Naomi

"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:

> Sounds like a valuable find to me.  Jerry Lehman is the guy collecting a lot
> of those, but I wouldn't mind a scion or two, either, IF it ripens no later
> than Early Golden, and hopefully earlier.
> -Lon Rombough
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> >From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
> >To: nafex@egroups.com
> >Subject: [nafex] Perfect-flowered persimmons
> >Date: Tue, Jan 2, 2001, 6:29 AM
> >
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> >While I've not looked at it while in bloom, I have a local native persimmon
> >I 'discovered' a couple of years back that produces mostly small (1-1.5")
> >seedless fruits, and a moderate number (maybe 20%) of larger fruits -
> >occasionally seedless, but usually containing a single seed.  I pulped out
> >a gallon of fruit from this tree last fall and got about 30 seeds - usually
> >I'd get that many out of a half-dozen fruits.  Seeds are 'plumper' than
> >those of the typical persimmon.
> >No other persimmons within several hundred yards of this tree, as far as I
> >can tell - it's growing in the fenceline of a cornfield along the highway.
> >Do you suppose this one would qualify as  polygamodioiecious, like Szukis
> >or F-100?
>
> >Lucky Pittman
> >USDA Zone 6
> >Hopkinsville, KY
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