Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock the edge of a woodland

the edge of a woodland bed

where the unusual gold flowers and long season earn a place

and Shikoku

Woodlanders offers the Changshou kumquat as an uncommon fruit worth wider trial in the milder Southeast

though so small and fiddly to shell that few people trouble to gather them

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock the edge of a woodlandThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the