
{"id":1235,"date":"2007-11-01T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/11\/01\/persimmon-season\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T07:12:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T15:12:41","slug":"persimmon-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/11\/01\/persimmon-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Persimmon season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/kencolorphotorev.jpg\" height=\"317\" width=\"237\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>An unusually heavy fruiting Persimmon Tree in the middle of Chapel Hill. Photo by Ken Moore<\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Ken Moore<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A desperate call two weeks ago: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ken, that persimmon tree near my office is already dropping fruit and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leaving for a couple of days and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them to go to waste!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I assured him I would collect those \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsimmons during his absence. We shared mutual curiosity that the ripe persimmons were dropping before the first frosts this year. So, it must be shorter days rather than frigid nights that trigger fruit ripening.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Across town, my favorite persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana) is loaded with fruit again this year. But, wow, when I arrived at the base of my friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favorite tree, I was stopped in my tracks. The persimmons on his tree hung like clusters of giant grapes.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Wednesday afternoon of UNC fall break and I anticipated being alone. I found several grounds crew members working nearby and they called over to me that they also had claim to some of those fruit on the ground. A few minutes later, a car pulls up and out steps another friend, who for years has been visiting this tree during \u00e2\u20ac\u2122simmon season. It seems this particular tree has more than one watchful guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Most folks use the persimmon pulp for pudding and bread recipes. I simply enjoy the fruit by plucking a ripe one (you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never put an unripened one in your mouth a second time!) to enjoy that cinnamon colored pulp while being careful not to swallow the five flat, long-oval, dark-brown seeds. Save the seeds to take home and plant in the ground where you want your very own persimmon trees. Be certain you plant several seeds some feet apart, for you need both a male and female plant to have your very own fruit-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually heavy fruiting Persimmon Tree in the middle of Chapel Hill. Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore A desperate call two weeks ago: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ken, that persimmon tree near my office is already dropping fruit and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leaving for a couple of days and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them to go to waste!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I assured him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-flora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}