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🍎🍐🍊Who wants to learn more about persimmons? Check out the post below with helpful links. AND complete our registration form if you'd to request your very own common persimmon (diospyros virginiana). The free sapling distribution is this Friday at Plaza Huitzil. Full details here: ✍🏼📝bit.ly/3PuEnue

Persimmons. Have you ever eaten one? Persimmons are sweet, native to Illinois, and have many unique characteristics to explore.

Tune in to with Chris Enroth and Ken Johnson as they sit down with Nick Frillman, Local Foods and Small Farms Educator, to uncover everything to know about persimmons. From American vs. Asian cultivars to tips for growing them in Illinois, cultivars, pollination, pruning, and harvesting tricks to avoid that dreaded cottonmouth.

Still looking for more? Listen to part two, where the three dig deeper into the fascinating world of specifically American persimmons (Diospyros virginiana). From tree identification and growing tips to wildlife connections and seed stratification.

Bust common myths, like whether persimmons need frost to ripen, and uncover quirky folklore, including the famous fork, knife, or spoon winter prediction.

🎧 Listen to anywhere you get your podcasts or online at https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-234-persimmon-growing-and-eating-illinois-sweetest-fruit-goodgrowing and https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-236-persimmon-growing-facts-folklore-goodgrowing

🔗 Read Nick’s personal connection and journey of growing persimmons in Illinois in the Flowers, Fruits, and Frass blog at https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/flowers-fruits-and-frass/2025-12-11-my-persimmon-journey-continues

U of I Extension-Livingston, McLean, Woodford Counties