“Persimmons look and taste like the fall season,” says Rachel Sullivan, the farm assistant at Frog Hollow Farm, a Brentwood, California, farm currently in the middle of its annual persimmon harvest.

Our fruit bowls are becoming more adventurous. Having embraced the kiwi, the mango and the pomegranate we are now, it seems, passionate about persimmons. Supermarkets including Asda reported sales of ...

If your persimmons didn’t get harvested before the first freeze of autumn, it’s not too late. They may be even sweeter after the freeze. Persimmons are a little known and obscure fruit. But those ...

Persimmons come in an astonishing number of unique varieties, ranging from yellow to nearly maroon. There are acorn-shaped persimmons, round varieties, boxy ones and some that look like apples. In ...

Not only does it produce luscious, brightly coloured fruit, its fabulous show of blazing autumn foliage in reds, oranges, yellows and even purples is a sight to behold. Even if you loathe the fruit, ...

Persimmons are slowly making their way into Australian grocers. A perfect autumn pick-me-up, the sweet variety can be eaten firm – in everything from salad to tarte tatin If ever a fruit seemed ...

Q: My persimmon trees fruited prolifically this year. I had heard that one should wait until after a hard frost for the astringency to disappear. The fruit never dropped but the leaves did. Finally, I ...