Diospyros.
Botanical name:
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Diospyros texana Scheele.
Engl.: Texas persimmon, black persimmon, Mexican persimmon.
Span.: chapote.
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