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Gardening Area => Growing questions and answers => Topic started by: bluespottedfrog on September 24, 2014, 03:14:30 AM

Title: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: bluespottedfrog on September 24, 2014, 03:14:30 AM

so i walk by this tree everyday to work, at first i thought it was a peach, but when i went to check it out up close i noticed its maybe something else...?  the fruits look like apples, but are almost as soft as a peach.  and with the way the house is set up, unless i catch the owners in the front yard, im yet to even see a door i could knock on to even ask.

thanks

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: New Wisdom on September 24, 2014, 03:54:58 AM

They just look like yellow apples to me.  Did you feel any of the fruits. Were they hard?

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: MadPlanter on September 24, 2014, 03:57:12 AM

Might be a yellow variation of a persimmon?

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: cunningplatypus on September 24, 2014, 04:19:16 AM

I don't know where you live, but I'm guessing it's a canistel (Pouteria campechiana).  :)

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: bluespottedfrog on September 24, 2014, 04:58:30 AM

yeah, that could be helpful...  zone 7b, just outside little rock, ar    ::)
im thinking MP is on it.  persimmons are kinda popular around here, but ive never seen that one.  may have to snag a cutting

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: New Wisdom on September 24, 2014, 06:03:36 AM

I think they look more like canistel than persimmon, but I don't know what grows where and all that stuff.  The pointed bottom part is very unique and I didn't notice it when I first saw it.

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: MadPlanter on September 24, 2014, 12:34:33 PM

Snag a fruit and get some seeds!

Whatever it is due to the cooler environment the seeds probably would need stratified.

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: EIRN on September 24, 2014, 02:24:55 PM

Diospyros sp.
In portuguese is caqui, in english I don't know

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: MadPlanter on September 24, 2014, 02:52:22 PM

I think that's the genus for persimmon in English. Could be wrong.

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: EIRN on September 24, 2014, 03:57:48 PM

Quote from: MadPlanter on September 24, 2014, 02:52:22 PM

I think that's the genus for persimmon in English. Could be wrong.

caqui = persimmon = diospyros kaki (and others species)

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: bluespottedfrog on September 27, 2014, 11:09:12 PM

so i met the lady today on my way to work.  almost was late, sweet old lady, but we started talking about gardening and  ::)

anywho, the tree is an asian persimmon cultivar (forget the name), two scions grafted to an american persimmon for a root stock (else it will get to cold here).  no dice on the seeds, this variety produces large, seedless fruits.  she did say she would start me a seedling for a stock and hook me up with some graftlings.

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: New Wisdom on September 28, 2014, 07:04:56 AM

When it gets bigger I would love a cutting!!!!  I wonder if they would do well in zone 6b.

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: bluespottedfrog on September 28, 2014, 08:43:57 AM

cant see why not, im in 7b.  ill see if i can get a few cuttings this winter to pass around...  is also some wild perssions near where im at so im gonna collect some seeds.

Title: Re: what kind of fruit tree is this?
Post by: bluespottedfrog on October 07, 2014, 07:26:59 AM

update on the fruits...  sorry for the crappy pics, was in a hurry...