D. kaki

_D. kaki_ is the Chinese or Japanese persimmon; _D. virginiana_ is the American persimmon.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

There’s a plum-sized native American persimmon, D. virginiana, and a Mexican species known as the black sapote D. digyna, but the most important persimmon species worldwide is D. kaki, a tree with applesized fruits native to China and adopted by Japan; it’s sometimes said that persimmons are to the Japanese what apples are to Americans.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

There’s a plum-sized native American persimmon, D. virginiana, and a Mexican species known as the black sapote D. digyna, but the most important persimmon species worldwide is D. kaki, a tree with applesized fruits native to China and adopted by Japan; it’s sometimes said that persimmons are to the Japanese what apples are to Americans.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004