A multitrunked or single-stemmed deciduous tree to 25 ft. high and at least as wide. Leaves are alternate, simple, ovate and up to 7 inches long and 4 inches wide. They are often pale, slightly yellowish green in youth, turning a dark, glossy green as they age. The inconspicuous flowers surrounded by a green calyx tube are borne in the leaf axils of new growth from one-year old wood. Female flowers are single and cream-colored while the pink-tinged male flowers are typically borne in threes. On male plants, especially, occasional perfect (bisexual) flowers occur, producing an atypical fruit.

Appetizer, sialagogue; astringent and styptic (stem bark); antitussive, astringent, laxative, nutritive and stomachic (fruit)

Diospyros kaki Linn
Japanese Persimmon
Floridata
Plants for a Future

Betulin (root, stem bark); betulinic acid (calyx, leaf, root)

In the treatment of constipation and haemorrhoids, to treat diarrhoea, bronchial complaints, hypertension (fruit); to treat coughs and hiccups (peduncle)