Coffee Cake Oriental Persimmon

Coffee Cake Oriental Persimmon aka Nishimura Wase Fuyu (Diospyros kaki) is a richly flavored variety with juicy, spicy-sweet chocolate colored flesh. This variety sets medium large and nearly round fruit. The tree is vigorous and easy to grow. Fruit ripens in September, about three weeks before Fuyu and does so in climates with cooler summers, that don’t consistently ripen Fuyu.

This variety is a non-astringent pollination variant – which means it develops its rich sweet flavor best when it is pollinized.  Without pollination, it is seedless but astringent, and then must be eaten dead ripe.  Chocolate is the best pollinizer.

Requires less than 200 hours annual chilling below 45 °F.

Mature height is 25 feet with a spread of 15-20 feet.

Cold hardy to USDA Zone 7.