{"id":9908,"date":"2025-10-14T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:25:06","slug":"two-kinds-of-persimmons-2025-10-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/two-kinds-of-persimmons-2025-10-09.html","title":{"rendered":"Two kinds of persimmons 2025-10-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nEvidently we&#8217;ve been mis-identifying our persimmons.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Two kinds of persimmons\" name=\"P2:Two-kinds-of-persimmons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-10-09--two-kinds-of-persimmmons\/crop.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-10-09--two-kinds-of-persimmmons\/crop.jpg\"  alt=\"[Two kinds of persimmons]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-10-09--two-kinds-of-persimmmons\/crop.html\">Two kinds of persimmons<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe prolific persimmon tree has acorn-shaped fruit like the red one here.\r\nThose are apparently Hachiya persimmons.\r\n<p>\r\nThe younger tree with only a few fruit not yet ripe has flat-bottom persimmons\r\nlike this yellow one.\r\nThose appear to be Fuyu persimmons.\r\n<p>\r\nSee, for example, this GrubMarket blog post,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.grubmarket.com\/persimmon-fruit\/\">\r\nFuyu vs. Hachiya: How to Use California Persimmons<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\nThey&#8217;re both varieties of the Oriental persimmon, <em>Diospyros kaki<\/em>.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evidently we&#8217;ve been mis-identifying our persimmons. Two kinds of persimmons The prolific persimmon tree has acorn-shaped fruit like the red one here. Those are apparently Hachiya persimmons. The younger tree with only a few fruit not yet ripe has flat-bottom persimmons like this yellow one. Those appear to be Fuyu persimmons. See, for example, this [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[346,6,60],"tags":[3703,77,3,23,3712,5,2,2760,3603,2780],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-plants","tag-fuyu-persimmon","tag-garden","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-hachiya-persimmon","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-persimmon","tag-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2zO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}