Though they may not be as familiar, this fruit is as delicious as it is nutritious, packed with vitamins and essential ...

At first glance, this fruit looks a lot like a tomato. But after taking a bite, you'll find that it's something much sweeter.

Some gardeners enjoy eating the fruits of our native persimmon, while others harvest them to predict the weather.

Persimmon trees produce some of the most gorgeous fruit, putting on a show toward the end of autumn when the rest of our shrubberies, flowers, and landscaping has started to fade. If you want to add ...

A warmer autumn might have pushed back early color development in Giumarra Companies’ Fuyu persimmon crop—but it did not ...

Ahhh, persimmons — the fruit that everyone has heard of but rarely eaten. Legend says that the seed found within can predict the upcoming winter. (If the kernel is spoon-shaped, expect heavy snow.) It ...

There is a pair of wild persimmon trees, one male and one female, on the edge of the wetlands near my home. Is there sex among persimmons trees? Apparently so. Males have the blossoms for pollination, ...

“Persimmons look and taste like the fall season,” says Rachel Sullivan, the farm assistant at Frog Hollow Farm, a Brentwood, California, farm currently in the middle of its annual persimmon harvest.

Smallish in size and with a shiny burnt-orange color, the unassuming persimmon packs a wallop in the flavor department. From the genus Diospyros, its name is translated as “divine food,” which likely ...