Pan persimmon (photo)
Difference between persimmon and tomato
Difference 1, Tomato is a vegetable, persimmon is a fruit.
Difference 2, people with gallstones can't eat persimmons, they can eat tomatoes, so those who have gallstones must pay attention!
Difference 3, persimmons grow on trees, tomatoes grow on top of vines.
Difference 4, the shape of the tomato than more, such as spherical, oblate, nearly conical, square, etc., while the shape of the persimmon is ovate oval to obovate or nearly round.
Picked ripe tomatoes (photo)
Tomato introduction
Tomato is an annual herbaceous plant, native to South America, and is widely cultivated in southern and northern China. Its plant is 0.6-2 meters tall, with mucilaginous glandular hairs all over, a strong odor, and stems that are easy to fall over. Its leaves are pinnately compound or pinnately parted, and the corolla is rotate.
Its berries are flat globose or nearly globose, fleshy and juicy, orange or bright red, smooth, with yellow seeds, flowering and fruiting in summer and fall.
Persimmon hanging fruit ripening (photo)
Persimmon introduction
Persimmon is a dried fruit of the persimmon plant family, the ripening season is around October. It has more shapes of fruits, such as spherical, oblate, subconical, square, etc.
And, the color of different varieties of persimmons ranges from light orange to deep orange-red. The size ranges from 2 centimeters to 10 centimeters and the weight from 100 grams to 450 grams. Originally from China, it has been cultivated for more than a thousand years.
The persimmon tree usually reaches a height of 10-14 meters or more, with dark gray to gray-black bark and a spherical or oblong crown. Its leaves are papery, ovate-elliptic to obovate or suborbicular.
The persimmon has dioecious flowers, axillary inflorescences, cymes, and more shapely fruits, which flower from May to June and ripen from September to October.