Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock or a vine that forgot

or a vine that forgot to fully climb

Butterfly weed is the orange star of the summer meadow

Woodlanders offers the Changshou kumquat as an uncommon fruit worth wider trial in the milder Southeast

The loquat keeps an upside-down calendar

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock or a vine that forgotThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the