Diospyros virginiana – Early Golden

Collection Status: Cultivar is present at AFFN
Planted on Dec 14, 2023

Common Name: American Persimmon
Parental Cross:
Geographic Origin: Alton, Illinois
Finder/Creator: Emil Riehl
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Notes: Attested 1880. It set the standard and for the past 100 years has been used as a measure for all newly developed persimmon cultivars. EG is the progenitor of the most recently developed persimmons cultivars in the Claypool and the Lehman breeding programs.