page_title: Diospyros kaki
section_title: Tree
hierarchical_section_title: Diospyros kaki / Tree
caption_attribution_description: English: Persimmons in Nakagawa, Nanyo City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. I took this photo with a digital camera in October 2005. Français&#160;: Plaqueminier à Nakagawa, ville de Nan'yō, prefecture de Yamagata au Japon.
context_page_description: Diospyros kaki, also called the persimmon, Oriental persimmon or kaki, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros. Although its first botanical description was not published until 1780, the kaki is among the oldest cultivated plants, having been in use in China for more than 2000 years. In some rural Chinese communities, the kaki fruit is seen as having a great mystical power that can be harnessed to cure headaches, back pains and foot ache.
  "Sharon Fruit" is a trade name for non-astringent D. kaki fruit.
context_section_description: Similar in shape to an apple tree, the kaki tree reaches a size of up to 10 metres (33 ft). Its deciduous leaves are medium to dark green, broadly lanceolate, stiff and equally wide as long. Blooming from May to June, the trees are typically either male or female, but some produce both types of flowers. Furthermore, the sexual expression of a tree may vary from year to year. Unusually, the kaki fruits  ripen when the leaves have mostly fallen off the tree, typically in October and November. (Northern Hemisphere)
caption: A kaki tree in Nanyo City, Yamagata, Japan in October 2005.
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