Diospyros virginiana L.

EBENACEAE

- Ebony family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Diospyros virginiana L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl. 2: 1057. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Rank: species

Images of Diospyros virginiana

Common names

U.S. name: Common persimmon

English name: American persimmon

English name: persimmon

Spanish name: caqui silvestre

French name: plaqueminier d'Amérique

Italian name: Cachi virginiano

German name: Persimone

Grown habit: Tree
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Diospyros mosieri Small
= Diospyros virginiana L. var. mosieri (Small) Sarg.
= Diospyros virginiana L. var. platycarpa Sarg.
= Diospyros virginiana L. var. pubescens (Pursh) Dippel
= Diospyros virginiana L. var. virginiana

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Diospyros virginiana L. var. mosieri (Small) Sarg.
2) Diospyros virginiana L. var. platycarpa Sarg.
3) Diospyros virginiana L. var. pubescens (Pursh) Dippel
4) Diospyros virginiana L. var. virginiana

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Ebenales
Family: Ebenaceae
Genus: Diospyros
Species:

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Diospyros virginiana
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Merano, giardino di Castel Trauttmansdorff. , BZ, Trentino Alto- Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Diospyros virginiana
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 720.

Diospyros virginiana
E.R. Jackson - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Orto Botanico dell'Università di Bologna, BO, Emilia-Romagna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Diospyros virginiana
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Merano, Giardini di Castel Trauttmansdorff, BZ, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Diospyros virginiana
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Diospyros virginiana
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Diospyros virginiana
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV)

Distributional map for Diospyros virginiana L.
Map for Diospyros virginiana L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Diospyros virginiana L. var. mosieri (Small) Sarg. [185]
2) Diospyros virginiana L. var. platycarpa Sarg. [198]
3) Diospyros virginiana L. var. pubescens (Pursh) Dippel [175]
4) Diphasiastrum alpinum (L.) Holub [230]
5) Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A. Braun) Holub [171]
6) Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub [170]
7) Diphasium alpinum (L.) Rothm. [149]
8) Diphasium complanatum (L.) Rothm. ssp. flabelliforme (Fernald) A. Löve & D. Löve [175]
9) Diphasium zeilleri (Rouy) Damboldt [171]
10) Diplachne fascicularis (Lam.) P. Beauv. [139]

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