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Diospyros texana Scheele

Texas persimmon, Mexican persimmon, Black persimmon, Chapote, Chapote prieto
Ebenaceae (Ebony Family)

USDA Symbol: DITE3
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Diospyros texana

Texas Persimmon

Ebenaceae

Location: Limestone hill, 80 m s of S Oakwell Farms Pky & 180 m E of Harry Wurzbach Dr--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Small grove, among other small trees on shallow caliche.

Description: Tree, 4 m tall, 8 cm dia trunk, much branched, crown rounded; bark thin, peeling. Leaves oblong-ovate, coriaceous, rounded to emarginate at apex, to 3 cm long. Corolla white, urceolate; petals to 8 mm long, recurving. Stamens-15 inserted.

County: Bexar
 Collector: Harry Cliffe
 Collection Date: Mar 27, 1994
 Specimen number: 556

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 0841
 Accession Date: Jul 26, 1994
 Accession Number: 63

Annotations: DSXXC Dioecious/Staminate (In flower)

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