This Kentucky 2020 Theodore Klein Plant Award Winner Kentucky native, Diospyros virginiana - Common Persimmon, is an adaptable and long-lived tree known for its delicious fall-ripening fruit. The fruit ripen after a fall frost and start falling to the ground to be enjoyed by wildlfe.  Growing to 40 to 50-feet tall, it grows into an upright oval shape and is easily identified by its ornamental deeply furrowed and blocky gray bark. Male and female, slightly fragrant, thick petalled, not-readily-obvious flowers are born on separate trees so both are required for fruit production; a good reason for a grove like the one that is at the Missouri Botanic Garden's Shaw Reserve, Gray Summitt, MO. Plants can be produced from seed.  Persimmon seed collected in the fall, refrigerated 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit over the winter for 120 days, and directly seeded in the spring should be stored in moist perlite or moist peat moss immediately after harvest and cleaning then placed in a sealed container in order to optimize germination.
There are fruiting cultivars and a weeping form MAGIC MOUNTAIN that requires training to avoid it becoming a ground cover.  As a solely landscape specimen plant it would be advantageous if there was a male fruitless cultivar selected for high percentage cutting propagation.