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Diospyros lotus (date plum)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Diospyros lotus, with common names date-plum, Caucasian persimmon, or lilac persimmon, is a widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros, native to subtropical southwest Asia and southeast Europe. Its English name derives from the small fruit, which have a taste reminiscent of both plums and dates. It is among the oldest plants in cultivation.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Structure [1]  Tree
Usage [1]  Sometimes used as a rootstock for D. kaki; Wood - durable, pliable, resists rot. Used for construction, general carpentry etc;
Height [1]  30 feet (9 m)
Width [1]  20 feet (6 m)
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External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Frugivory and seed dispersal by the yellow-throated marten, Martes flavigula, in a subtropical forest of China, You-Bing Zhou, Eleanor Slade, Chris Newman, Xiao-Ming Wang and Shu-Yi Zhang, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2008) 24:219–223
♦ 3Frugivory and seed dispersal by a small carnivore, the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata, in a fragmented subtropical forest of central China, You-Bing Zhou, Liang Zhang, Yayoi Kaneko, Chris Newman, Xiao-Ming Wang, Forest Ecology and Management 255 (2008) 1595–1603
♦ 4DIETARY SHIFTS IN RELATION TO FRUIT AVAILABILITY AMONG MASKED PALM CIVETS (PAGUMA LARVATA) IN CENTRAL CHINA, YOUBING ZHOU, JINSHUO ZHANG, ELEANOR SLADE, LIBIAO ZHANG, FRANCISCO PALOMARES, JIN CHEN, XIAOMING WANG, AND SHUYI ZHANG, Journal of Mammalogy, 89(2):435–447, 2008
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0