The turn into yellow, orange or red during fall depending on the cultivar. Female flowers are solitary, larger then male flowers, with yellow-whitish small petals. Male flowers are brought in clusters formed by three small flowers. Very often the central flower of the cluster is hermaphrodite, while the others are male. Fruits derived from hermaphrodite flowers are very small and they have no commercial value.
Pollination is carried on by insects.
The skin colour at harvest is yellow or orange-yellow in most of cultivars. The 8 ovary lodges ,which can bring from none to one seed each one, can be seen in cross-section. The fruits of Japanese Persimmon are eaten for dessert. Sometimes they can be dried or used for juice production or marmalades. All fruits of Pollination Constant Not Astringent cultivars and only pollinated fruits of Pollination Variant Not Astringent cultivars can be eaten when fruit is hard.