NSIS: Florida Gardening with Native Plants


EBONY FAMILY (EBENACEAE)
Bird food Persimmon fruit: blue jays, bluebirds, bobwhites, catbirds, cedar waxwings, mockingbirds, phoebes, pileated woodpeckers, robins, others. Butterfly food Rotting persimmons: Hackberry Emperor Wildlife food Persimmon fruit: bears, white-tailed deer, foxes, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, rodents, skunks Persimmon nectar: bees

name	area	flower & fruit	season	other

Persimmon Diospyros giniana	NCS	white-greenish yellow yellow-orange	Sp FW	t

Codes:

N=north
C=central
S=south

Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter

a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine

i=invasive

ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans