Prices start at : 19.99 USD / 2 18-24" plants
Tree is lovely enough to be used as an ornamental, with golden fall foliage and attractive deep orange fruit that will hang 'til mid-winter, lending color to the winter landscape. Doesn't deserve its puckery reputation! Fruit starts out with a tangy,...
- Comments: Fruit is tangy and apricot-like. Frost helps flavor. If you pull the fruit from the tree, it is not ripe and will be quite sour to the taste. Foliage turns yellow in the Fall. Tree lives 30 - 80 years. Fruit is somewhat seedy. Prune suckers. Adapted to a wide range of soils and climates. Fruit hangs on tree until mid-Winter. Drought resistant. Hardy to -25 degrees F. Hard, durable wood.
- Blooms: Spring.
- Depth: Same as in the nursery.
- Fruit: Round, fleshy, 1 - 2 inch, yellowish-orange fruit.
- Botanical Name: Diospyros virginiana 'American'
- Height: 35 - 60 feet.