Among indigenous trees, shrubs and vines that bear edible fruits or nuts the state has the blackberry, grape, pawpaw, persimmon, plum, crabapple, hickory, chestnut and hazel nut.
Among its native fruits are the persimmon, the paw-paw, the goose plum and the fox grape.
Among wild fruit-trees are the persimmon and Chickasaw plum; grape-vines and a large variety of berry-bushes grow wild and in abundance.
But in most parts of the state there are mixed forests of white oak, red oak, ash, red gum, black gum, maple, hickory, chestnut, sycamore, magnolia, tulip tree, cherry, pecan, walnut, elm, beech, locust and persimmon.
Here were great oaks and splendid evergreens with trunks like mossy pillars, from the branches of which hung garlands of ivy and mistletoe, and persimmon trees, the odour of which pervaded every nook and corner of the wood--an illusive, fragrant something that made the heart glad.
It comes in Jet Black/Black Persimmon, Jet Black/VR50, and Jet Black/Light Grey.
On drier and higher soils are the persimmon, sassafras, red maple, elm, black haw, hawthorn, various oaks (in all 10 species occur), hickories and splendid forests of longleaf and loblolly yellow pine.
Other trees common in the state are the persimmon, sassafras, and, in the Ohio Valley region, the sycamore.
Persimmon (Diospyros) - Trees from China and Japan which, in our warm counties, appear to be hardy, but do not often produce fruits except in warm soils in the best conditions.
The Asian Fit option includes a Jet Black frame with Black Persimmon Iridium Transitions lens or a Grey frame with G40 Transitions lens.
The persimmon attains perfection, and experiment has proved the suitability of the climate to many foreign fruits.
The persimmon lenses are designed for low light conditions, like on overcast days.
The sassafras, persimmon, wild cherry and Chickasaw plum are found in all parts of the state.