COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - If you’re looking for a new fruit tree to grow at home, consider a persimmon tree. “Most people are familiar with persimmons but they only know the wild persimmons,” ...

The wild horses on North Carolina’s Outer Banks have been seen chewing on trees in a phenomenon that has nothing to do with a food shortage on the barrier islands. It’s persimmon season, according to ...

There is a pair of wild persimmon trees, one male and one female, on the edge of the wetlands near my home. Is there sex among persimmons trees? Apparently so. Males have the blossoms for pollination, ...

After the leaves of the persimmon tree fall in autumn, much of the fruit still clings to the branches through November. The first time I plucked a persimmon from a tree and took a bite, I was ...

COROLLA, N.C. — Editor's Note: The above video originally aired Aug. 6, 2019. The wild horses on North Carolina's Outer Banks are in the midst of a feeding frenzy, and observers say persimmons are ...

A tall tree with a champion’s title stands on the western bank of the Dismal Swamp Canal. Way up high in the tree’s top, orange-colored persimmons grow. “They’re a little hard to see because it’s so ...

Many years ago, while browsing in the New York Botanical Garden's library, I discovered that institution’s collection of antique nursery catalogs. Talk about going down a rabbit hole! It was weeks ...

This wild horses is enjoying a fall tradition on the Outer Banks: Eating “sticky sweet” persimmons from the trees. Video screengrab The wild horses on North Carolina’s Outer Banks have been seen ...