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Taxon:  Diospyros virginiana L.



Summary
Genus:
Diospyros
Family:
Ebenaceae
Nomen number:
14329
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1057. 1753
Verified:
06/06/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Diospyros mosieri S. F. Blake
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
  2. Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature
  3. Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:227. URL: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/702#/summary
  4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Diospyros+virginiana&quantity=1
  5. IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource). URL: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/databases/new_world_fruits_database/search.html
  6. Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
  7. Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
  8. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
  9. Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States
  10. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  11. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  12. Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States
  13. Mohr, C. 1901. Plant life of Alabama. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 6:664.
  14. Ondrasek, I. et al. 2005. Evaluation of frost hardiness in some cultivars of Diospyros spp. by artificial freezing. Acta Hort. 685:113-118. Note: it examined hybrid of Diospyros virginiana × D. kaki
  15. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  16. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  17. Roehm, K. & M. D. Moran. 2013. Is the coyote (Canis latrans) a potential seed disperseer for the American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)? Amer. Midl. Naturalist 169:416-421.
  18. Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
  19. Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource). URL: https://herbarium.utk.edu/vascular/vascular-database.php?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Ebenaceae&GenusID=Diospyros&SpeciesID=virginiana
  20. 2018. Oklahoma vascular plant database URL: http://www.oklahomaplantdatabase.org/
Common names
English
American persimmon –
persimmon –
French
plaqueminier d'Amérique –
German
Persimone –
Spanish
caqui de Virginia –
caqui silvestre –
Swedish
persimon –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesIllinois 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesIowas.e.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesKansase.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesMissouri 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesNebraskas.e.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesOklahoma 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesConnecticuts.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesIndiana 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew Jersey 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesNew Yorks.e.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesPennsylvania 
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesWest Virginia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabama 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesDelaware 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesKentucky 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesLouisiana 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMaryland 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMississippi 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesTennessee 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesVirginia 
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Northern America
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut (s.), Indiana, New Jersey, New York (s.e.), Pennsylvania, West Virginia]
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa (s.e.), Kansas (e.), Missouri, Nebraska (s.e.), Oklahoma]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
Human foodfruit Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
Materialswoodfor veneerLittle, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.


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