Health Benefits of Persimmon Fruit

Remember this if you want wild American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) fruit, you need both a male and female! The main pollinator of these trees is bees, but if close enough, they could be pollinated by wind also. The female flowers we looked at in the video occur once per leaf node and are also larger than the male flowers which typically come in clusters. You can use this to try to distinguish between a male and female of a tree you find in the wild at the time they are flowering! Have you