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Bookhenge: The Tamopan persimmon nominated for the "World's Most Beautiful Fruit"!
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Bookhenge: The sculptured fruit, the leaf color, the size (similar to dogwood) -- there should be a persimmon tree in every landscape . . .
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Bookhenge: An abundance of persimmons . . .
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Bookhenge: Christmas came early this year ;-)
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Bookhenge: If Charlie Brown's Christmas tree had persimmons . . . (thanks to Cullen for photo)
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Bookhenge: Ready for harvest but not for eating . . .
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Bookhenge: Harvesting is not as easy as it looks . . .
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Bookhenge: You must have the tool to cut the tough, woody stem . . . attempting to pull the fruit from the tree is what resulted in the tremendous damage two years ago . . .
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Bookhenge: Thick, tough, woody stem
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Bookhenge: The "star" on the tree . . .
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Bookhenge: My favorite fruit!
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Bookhenge: Only eyes for persimmons . . . ;-)
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Bookhenge: Pounds are adding up . . .
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Bookhenge: Beautiful!
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Bookhenge: Whew! At least 65 lbs.
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Bookhenge: You can make it, Cullen!!!
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Bookhenge: Yay!!!
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Bookhenge: To the shed . . .
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Bookhenge: Time to ripen up . . . could take two weeks . . .
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Bookhenge: An astringent persimmon must not be eaten before its time (Thanks to Cullen for photo)
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Bookhenge: Like Cullen says, "Victory means something different to everyone who works in this victory garden."
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Bookhenge: What a prize!
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Bookhenge: Eye spy . . .
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Bookhenge: The bare tree . . . with promises of future persimmon harvests . . .