Description

Diospyros lotus, with common names date-plum, Caucasian persimmon, or lilac persimmon, is a widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros, native to subtropical southwest Asia and southeast Europe. Fruits contain tannin. The fruits have effects of antimutagenic, anti-canceration and resistant to chromosome damages.

Scientific classitication

Family: Ebenaceae

Genus: Diospyros

Common Name

persimmon

Reference

Akagi T, Shirasawa K, Nagasaki H, Hirakawa H, Tao R, Comai L, et al. (2020) The persimmon genome reveals clues to the evolution of a lineage-specific sex determination system in plants. PLoS Genet 16(2): e1008566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008566