Persimmon trees have been grown for thousands of years for their delicious fruit and beautiful wood. Their orange fruits are known as persimmons because of their sweet and honey-like taste. Persian persimmon The Iranian persimmon fruits are almost round, shiny and hard skinned.
They are about 2.5 cm in diameter and their color varies from faded orange to slightly red when ripe. They ripen from October to November, usually after the tree loses its leaves. Harvest season: Autumn. Iranian persimmon tree is 3.5 to 6 meters high and 2 to 3.5 meters wide. The eastern persimmon tree is not resistant in zone five and is a smaller tree.