These truly bountiful trees come to us from Asia – mainly Japan, Korea and China – where they have been cultivated for a two to three thousand years. They produce the highest number of pounds of fruit per acre of any fruit grown by mankind. A single small (12′-15′) tree can produce 200-300 pounds of fruit each year!
Asian persimmons (Diospyros kaki) were introduced by Asian laborers who came to America in the mid-1800’s to help build America’s transcontinental railroads. Starting in the West, gradually Asian persimmons moved eastward, delighting people who made a place for them in their gardens with their sweetness, flavors of baking spices and butterscotch, their long shelf life, and of course the chance to share abundance with friends, neighbors and family. They can be picked ahead of their full ripeness and will ripen over weeks on the counter and even in the refrigerator. They can also be dried and make an almost candy-like fruit, even sweeter than dried apricots. The genus name “diospyros” means “food of the gods”, and Asian persimmons very rightly carry this genus name.
Growers possessing cultivars that are not shown here are encouraged to reach out to AFFN with germplasm/scions. Please also reach out to us, if you have corrections to offer on cultivar names, or redundancies of which you are aware among the cultivars. Clarifying confusion in names, which has arisen through the years, is also a goal of AFFN.
Asian Persimmons at the AFFN Orchard – last updated November 2025
- Diospyros kaki – Brazzale
- Diospyros kaki – Bruniquel
- Diospyros kaki – Cardinal [DK]
- Diospyros kaki – Cheong Pyang
- Diospyros kaki – Chienting
- Diospyros kaki – Chinebuli
- Diospyros kaki – Farmacista Honorati
- Diospyros kaki – Fire Crystal
- Diospyros kaki – Fujiwara Gosho
- Diospyros kaki – Giant Fuyu
- Diospyros kaki – Giboshi
- Diospyros kaki – Giombo
- Diospyros kaki – Great Wall
- Diospyros kaki – Gwang Yang
- Diospyros kaki – Hanafuyu
- Diospyros kaki – Honan Red
- Diospyros kaki – Ichi ki kei jiro
- Diospyros kaki – Incheon
- Diospyros Kaki – Izu
- Diospyros kaki – Jin Young Tam Kam
- Diospyros kaki – Jiro
- Diospyros kaki – Korean Kaki
- Diospyros kaki – Kuro Kuma
- Diospyros kaki – Lampadina
- Diospyros kaki – Lindy’s Giant
- Diospyros kaki – Maekawa Jiro
- Diospyros kaki – Mandarino
- Diospyros kaki – Maru (CA strain)
- Diospyros kaki – Maru (Zenji strain)
- Diospyros kaki – Matsumoto
- Diospyros kaki – Matsumoto Wase
- Diospyros kaki – Mikitani Gosho
- Diospyros kaki – Miss Kim
- Diospyros kaki – Mo Pon Shi
- Diospyros kaki – Nishimura Wase
- Diospyros kaki – Nui Wai
- Diospyros kaki – Oku Gosho
- Diospyros kaki – Oriole
- Diospyros kaki – Phoenix
- Diospyros kaki – Raven
- Diospyros kaki – Rispoli
- Diospyros kaki – Rojo Brilliante
- Diospyros kaki – Saijo
- Diospyros kaki – Shan Xi
- Diospyros kaki – Sheng
- Diospyros kaki – Steiermark
- Diospyros kaki – Suruga
- Diospyros kaki – Tanenashi
- Diospyros kaki – Tecumseh
- Diospyros kaki – Thiene
- Diospyros kaki – Tsurunoko
- Diospyros kaki – UKR “Hydra”
- Diospyros Kaki – UKR “Mriya”
- Diospyros Kaki – UKR “Nitra”
- Diospyros Kaki – UKR “Orest Uzhgorod”
- Diospyros kaki – UKR “Parthenon”
- Diospyros Kaki – UKR “Schistian Gold”
- Diospyros kaki – UKR “Souvenir Oseni”
- Diospyros kaki – UKR “Sovietski Kaki”
- Diospyros Kaki – UKR “Zirochka”
- Diospyros kaki – Vaniglia
- Diospyros kaki – Yamoto
- Diospyros kaki – Yeddo
Following Asian Persimmon plants could not yet be aquired:
- Diospyros kaki – 20th Century
- Diospyros kaki – Aizu Mishirazu
- Diospyros kaki – Castellani
- Diospyros kaki – Coroa de Rei
- Diospyros kaki – Costata
- Diospyros kaki – Fav Fav
- Diospyros kaki – Fuyu
- Diospyros kaki – Fuyu (Imoto Strain)
- Diospyros kaki – Hachiya
- Diospyros kaki – Hana Gosho
- Diospyros kaki – Hao River
- Diospyros kaki – Huk Kam
- Diospyros kaki – Hyakume
- Diospyros kaki – Mikitani
- Diospyros kaki – Picudo
- Diospyros kaki – Robin
- Diospyros kaki – Sam Gam
- Diospyros kaki – Sam Gam Dum Si
- Diospyros kaki – San Pedro
- Diospyros kaki – Sharon
- Diospyros kaki – Taishu
- Diospyros kaki – Tam Kam
- Diospyros kaki – Triumph