Diospyros texana
Mexican Persimmon · Texas Persimmon · Black Persimmon
About the plant
What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.
- Habit
- shrub or treePlants of the World Online
- Habit
- Perennial, Shrub, TreePLANTS Database
- Flower
- WhiteWikipedia
- Native range
- Mexico Northeast, TexasGBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.
Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Worth knowing
- Texas persimmon's smooth gray bark peels in flakes to show pink beneath. Its sweet black fruit is a prized food of peccaries, and the juice has been used as a dye. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Diospyros texana
Protocol
DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998Difficulty Moderate
Sow and cover
Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark
No stated waiting before sowing. Then 35 days to germinate.
50% germination in 35 days.
How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.
Germination trials
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