Love my seedling persimmons

[Native Hunter]

Here is an interesting persimmon. A few years ago I bought a named cultivar Japanese Persimmon from a nursery. It was growing great, and then we had a bad wind storm that broke the top out of it - just a stub left. I had kind of forgotten about it, but two years ago I noticed that it was growing a new top from the stub. Well, fast forward to this year and it is loaded with what appears to be just plain American Persimmons. My hunch is that it was a Japanese Persimmon grafted to an American Female. The wind storm removed the Japanese part and the American Persimmon grew back.

 

[PatinPA]

http://www.twisted-tree.net/trees/persimmon.

Here is a nursery in NY’s southern tier that sells persimmon seedlings from locally collected seeds. I’ve not bought from him but I’d think these are a decent choice for cold hardy seedlings.

Do you have any experience with them? I'm interested in a lot of what they have.