Our Variety Assessment

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

Nikita’s Gift offers an excellent compromise between the fruit size of an Asian persimmon and the resilience of a hybrid. The tree begins bearing young and produces generous crops of fleshy orange-red fruit with a rich flavour. We would choose it when eating quality matters more than crisp texture. It is astringent and somewhat less cold-hardy than Russian Beauty.

Nikita’s Gift

Price range: 38,00 € through 49,75 €

An early-ripening modern hybrid persimmon, a good choice for northern climates.

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SKU: 3127 Category: Persimmon trees

Description

Nikita’s Gift is a modern hybrid American / Asian persimmon, developed specifically to be productive in cooler climates with shorter summers.

The medium-sized fruits typically ripen in mid-October in northern France / Belgium and have a flavour more reminiscent of the American persimmon, but the scent of the Asian persimmon.

Nikita’s Gift is classified as an astringent persimmon, so the fruits need a period of ripening after harvest, to allow the flesh to soften and reach the perfect state of sweetness.

The bright green leaves turn an attractive dull red in autumn, giving the tree some ornamental appeal.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Ukrainian hybrid bred at the Nikita Botanical Garden in Crimea, from breeding work on crosses between Diospyros kaki and Diospyros virginiana.

Origin

Period of 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

Rosseyanka x Diospyros kaki or related pollination, exact parentage varies depending on sources

Synonyms

Nikita’s Gift, Nikitskaya Bordovaya, Nikitskaya Bordova

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Medium vigour, compact to semi-upright habit

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 4 - late.

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