Prairie Sun™ American Persimmon, with beautiful, orange-yellow fruit is not only early ripening, it is also delectably sweet, firm, and delicious. Apparently self-fertile, Prairie Sun ™ bears abundant crops of large seedless fruit in our orchard.
One of the earliest ripening American Persimmon varieties, Prairie Star® American Persimmon is prized for its unusually large, very sweet, firm and flavorful fruit. Apparently self-fertile, Prairie Star™ fruit is also seedless in our orchard.
Sweet Fuyu Asian Persimmon is an early-ripening variety prized for its beautiful fall color and its abundant crops of striking, bright orange, sweet and flavorful fruit. Sweet Fuyu is delicious eaten fresh and is also good for drying. It is ready to eat while it is firm like an apple.
An early ripening form of the popular Jiro variety, Early Jiro is prized for it delicious flavor and attractive form. Early Jiro bears abundant crops of bright orange fruit that can be eaten while firm, like an apple, or allowed to soften to a tomato-like texture when it is even sweeter.
A classic and very popular Japanese variety, Saijo Asian Persimmon is one of our favorites. An attractive, compact tree, Saijo bears abundant crops of conical-shaped, orange-red, very sweet and juicy fruit. Early ripening and very reliable, Saijo Asian Persimmon fruit is great for fresh eating and it is also is one of the best for drying. It is ready to eat when soft and tender like a ripe tomato.
Early Fuyu Asian Persimmon is an early-ripening variety that has proven itself a reliable producer in our Pacific Northwest climate. Every year we harvest good crops of beautiful, orange fruit from our compact, attractive trees. Early Fuyu Asian Persimmon fruit is sweet and flavorful and can be eaten when firm or allowed to soften and become even sweeter. It is almost identical to the Sweet Fuyu except for ripening time.
Nikita’s Gift™ Hybrid Persimmon is from the Nikita Botanic Garden in Yalta, Ukraine, this unique hybrid of Asian and American Persimmon bears bountiful crops of sweet and flavorful, reddish-orange fruit followed by strikingly beautiful, orange-yellow fall foliage.
One of the best American Persimmon Varieties, Early Golden American Persimmon has 1-1/2″ diameter fruit that becomes very sweet and deep orange when ripe, with a delicious taste not unlike dates.
Valuable as a pollinator for our American Persimmon varieties, our Male American Persimmon variety is also a very attractive tree in its own right. Male Persimmons do not bear fruit.
Meader American Persimmon was selected by the late Professor Elwyn Meader in New Hampshire, this outstanding, self-fertile variety produces delicious, sweet, deep orange fruit. A fine ornamental as well, Meader’s large, dark green foliage turns a beautiful red and yellow in the fall.
