As the leaves begin to turn and the air grows crisp, it's the perfect time to embrace the warm, inviting flavors of autumn, ...

Find out what nutrients are in persimmons and learn how they can help everything from cholesterol to eye health.

For more than 70 years, Mitchell, Ind., has celebrated the persimmon with annual fall festival full of baked treats, parade floats and persimmon queens.

Plump, pulpy, astringent yet sweet, this lesser-known fall fruit stars in puddings, cakes, and plenty of midwestern family legends. OF ALL THE signs that autumn has finally arrived in the lower ...

Persimmons are sweet and flavourful fruits that belong to the genus Diospyros. There are various varieties of persimmons, with the two main types being astringent and non-astringent. Astringent ...

The non-astringent ones, which can be consumed when firm and crisp, are one of the most coveted fresh varieties in winter, while the astringent types are the ones that are normally to be processed ...

Asian persimmons (Diospyros kaki) are eye-popping small ornamental trees. They have wonderful yellow and orange fall colors and produce copious quantities of large orange fruit that hang on the tree ...

Local wild persimmons are small and super astringent unless they’re super ripe and soft. These, however, are Gwang Yang—a larger Korean variety of non-astringent persimmon that looks like an orange ...

Astringent varieties include the American persimmon, which is paler orange in color. Similar to the Asian hachiya, this regional variety is completely inedible until it’s fully ripened.