Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Lehman’s Delight deserves a place among the finest large-fruited American persimmons. It bears heavy crops of brick-red fruit that is noticeably larger than that of many Diospyros virginiana selections, with smooth, pleasant flesh. Its main drawback is typical of the species: fruit remains strongly astringent until completely soft and then becomes too delicate for prolonged storage.

Lehman Delight

Price range: 38,00 € through 49,75 €

An American persimmon with large fruits, one of the best for colder climates.

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SKU: 14874 Category: Persimmon trees

Description

Lehman’s Delight is an American persimmon (Diospyrus virginiana). The fruits are relatively large, and have a brick-red colour when ready for harvesting.

Lehman’s Delight is an astringent persimmon, and after harvest the fruits need a period of 2-3 weeks to ripen off the tree. The process can be speeded-up by placing them near ripening apples, pears, or bananas, Alternatively the fruits can be left to hang on the tree into late autumn (even after the leaves have fallen), until they become soft.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

American selection of Diospyros virginiana bred by Jerry Lehman in Indiana, distributed under the number 100-46.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Parthenocarpic, sets fruit without pollination

Origin and identity

Parentage

Selection of Diospyros virginiana, exact parents unknown

Synonyms

Lehman’s Delight, 100-46

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium vigour, upright to rounded habit

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 5 - very late.

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