Persimmon trees are everywhere here, and they’re often fruiting and have lots of fruit but, despite being on the branch for a long time before being picked (if at all), nothing is eating them. No birds, no animals. Just perfect little persommon fruits. What gives? Do monkeys eat them?
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Tell that to all the civets, squirrels, crows, and numerous other birds that feast on the one across the street from me.
Probably depends where it’s situated.
The crows wait until they are ripe then clear the entire tree in a few hours.
They do. They wait until it’s soft and ripe. That’s why humans have bred persimmons to sweeten while they are still hard to the touch rather than having to compete with wildlife
Just yesterday I picked clean 4 kaki trees at my wife’s jikka, about one in every ten persimmons was nibbled at already by crows etc.
Because they are not allowed to
There was a bear eating them down by the river at a cabin I went and looked at about 2 weeks ago.
Which isn’t disuading me but hopefully will frighten off other folks since you know, bear.
Fruits are the candies from nature. And stand for the best a plant produces, for its decendants. They will be eaten when the time is ripe, literally.
We humans buy and eat a lot of unripe fruits. Simply because it is handy to sell and store. Not because it tastes best.
Persimmons became my favorite fruits after coming here
boy those seedless ripe ones are just so juicy
Birds and other animals do eat them when they are very ripe, but in they all ripen at once (in one area) so there are many more ripe than the birds can eat.
They’re basically all astringent persimmons with a lot of tannin, so birds and animals won’t eat them either unless they’ve lost their tannin and become tasty.