2. Diospyros kaki is a tree, which is as high as12m. The bark is gray and then brown, and the trunk and old branches are often scattered with branched thorns. The shoots are slightly pilose. Leaves are nearly papery or thinly leathery, with varied shapes, usually obovate, ovoid, oval or oblong-lanceolate, with blunt apex, slightly concave or acute, blunt base, round or nearly heart-shaped, with more or less hairs on both sides, and the midvein is concave above and convex below. Petiole is 3-7 mm long. Male flowers are small, born in cymes, about 5 mm long. Female flowers are solitary, calyx green, corolla yellowish, ovary hairless, 8-loculed, style 4. The fruit is spherical, red or brown, with a diameter of 1.5-2.5 cm, 8 cells, persistent calyx leathery, about 1.5-2.5 cm wide, lobulated, somewhat recurved and blunt. The fruit stalk is 3-8 mm long. China and Taiwan Province are cultivated. India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The fruit is bitter, inedible, poisonous and can make fish drunk.