Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Texas Persimmon
Diospyros texana
Texas persimmon wears smooth gray bark that looks sculpted rather than grown, drops sweet black fruit the birds and foxes fight over, and does all of it rooted in solid limestone — the kind of rock that sends most trees packing. Wildly underused, for no reason anyone can defend. 🌳
Water
Very low
Sun
Full · part
Blooms
Spring
Wildlife
Birds · mammals
Smooth gray bark, sweet black fruit the wildlife loves and will strip before you get a taste. A sculptural small tree built for limestone — it treats the worst soil in the county as a reasonable place to settle down.
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