Foraging spot
Persimmon tree
Hachiya must be jelly-soft; Fuyu eaten firm.
Coordinates: 37.858871, -122.285004
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What to do with it
- Fuyu: eat firm like an apple
- Hachiya: scoop when jelly-soft
- Bake into pudding or bread
Ways to keep it
- Persimmon vinegar (ferment)
- Dry into hoshigaki
- Persimmon jam or butter
- Freeze Hachiya pulp
About Persimmon
The persimmon () is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. The most widely cultivated of these is the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese kaki persimmon, Diospyros kaki. In 2023, China produced 80% of the world's persimmons.
From Wikipedia.
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