Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Diospyros texana
Diospyros texana Scheele
Texas Persimmon, Mexican Persimmon, Black Persimmon, Chapote, Chapote Prieto
Ebenaceae (Ebony Family)
USDA Symbol: DITE3USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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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)