Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock This conradina haunts a sandy

This conradina haunts a sandy woodland and cutover near the Styx River

Site the plant in moist

though so small and fiddly to shell that few people trouble to gather them

The loquat keeps an upside-down calendar

who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock This conradina haunts a sandyThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the