Persimmon in color. The calyx generally remains attached to the fruit after harvesting, but becomes easy to remove once the fruit is ripe. The ripe fruit has a high glucose content and is sweet in taste. Like the tomato, persimmons are not commonly considered to be berries, but morphologically the fruit is in fact a berry. While many species of "Diospyros" bear fruit inedible to humans or only occasionally gathered, the following are grown for their edible fruit: Asian or Japanese persimmon ("Diospyros kaki") is the commercially most important persimmon, and is native to Japan, China, Korea, Myanmar and Nepal. It
Diospyros melanoxylon Diospyros melanoxylon Diospyros melanoxylon, the Coromandel ebony or East Indian ebony, is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae native to India and Sri Lanka; it has a hard, dry bark. Its common name derives from Coromandel, the coast of southeastern India. Locally it is known as "temburini" or by its Hindi name "tendu". In Odisha, Jharkhand, and Assam, it is known as "kendu". The leaves can be wrapped around tobacco to create the Indian "beedi", which has outsold conventional cigarettes in India. The leaf of the tree contains valuable flavones. The pentacyclic triterpenes found in the leaves