COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - If you’re looking for a new fruit tree to grow at home, consider a persimmon tree. “Most people are familiar with persimmons but they only know the wild persimmons,” ...

There is a pair of wild persimmon trees, one male and one female, on the edge of the wetlands near my home. Is there sex among persimmons trees? Apparently so. Males have the blossoms for pollination, ...

For many years, gardeners have used persimmon seeds as a traditional method to predict winter weather. A fork shape inside the seed indicates a mild one.

After the leaves of the persimmon tree fall in autumn, much of the fruit still clings to the branches through November. The first time I plucked a persimmon from a tree and took a bite, I was ...

A tall tree with a champion’s title stands on the western bank of the Dismal Swamp Canal. Way up high in the tree’s top, orange-colored persimmons grow. “They’re a little hard to see because it’s so ...

LOCAL FLAVOR: Bill Whipple and Monica Williams have already harvested the persimmons from the tree on their West Asheville property and frozen the fruit for future uses. The couple grafted multiple ...

Near the main entrance to Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery stands a 10-foot-tall tree that come October is loaded with heart-shaped orange fruit. It perplexes many who visit Oakland for its annual Sunday in ...

Many years ago, while browsing in the New York Botanical Garden's library, I discovered that institution’s collection of antique nursery catalogs. Talk about going down a rabbit hole! It was weeks ...

COROLLA, N.C. — Editor's Note: The above video originally aired Aug. 6, 2019. The wild horses on North Carolina's Outer Banks are in the midst of a feeding frenzy, and observers say persimmons are ...