This hybrid persimmon combines the larger fruit size of the Asian persimmon (Diospyros kaki) with the greater winter hardiness of the Ame...Read Morerican persimmon (D. virginiana). 'Rosseyanka' is said to have a larger habit than the other common hybrid persimmon cultivar, 'Nikita's Gift'. It is often rated hardy only to Z6a.
Persimmons have no serious pests or diseases, are highly adaptable about soils, and are easy to grow organically.
Bloom is late enough in the season that spring frosts rarely affect fruiting. This cultivar is self-fertile and usually seedless.
The fruits color up orange long before they are ripe, and are highly ornamental, especially after leaf drop.
Well-ripened fruits are good eaten fresh, used in cooking, dried, or made into fruit leather. Persimmons are unpleasantly astringent and taste truly nasty unless ripened till very soft and the calyx is easy to pull off intact, close to or even after first frost. They may be harvested by tapping the trunk and taking the fruit that falls. They may also be picked up to a month early and allowed to ripen off the tree.
Bred by Pasenkov in 1959 at the Nikitsky Botanicai Garden in Yalta, the Ukraine.
An extremely cold hardy Russian hybrid. Cross of Diospyros virginiana and the Asian Kaki persimmon. Its 2-3 inch fruit that is nearly see...Read Moredless. Has an excellent smooth texture with a traditional syrupy sweet Asian persimmon flavor. Trees are rapid upright growers with a more American persimmon leaf type. Excellent large shade tree if left un-pruned. Tends to ripens mid to late October.
This hybrid persimmon combines the larger fruit size of the Asian persimmon (Diospyros kaki) with the greater winter hardiness of the Ame...Read More
An extremely cold hardy Russian hybrid. Cross of Diospyros virginiana and the Asian Kaki persimmon. Its 2-3 inch fruit that is nearly see...Read More