Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock and Shikoku

and Shikoku

or a vine that forgot to fully climb

where the unusual gold flowers and long season earn a place

though so small and fiddly to shell that few people trouble to gather them

who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock and ShikokuThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the