Diospyros cathayensis

Cathay persimmon is in the ebony or Ebenaceae family and is found mostly in southern Anhui, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, western Hubei, Hunan, central and eastern Sichuan and northeastern Yunnan in China.

• Branchlets are brown, minutely pubescent, usually tipped with slender spines.
• Leaves are mostly evergreen, alternate, simple, elliptic, 4–9 cm long and 1.5–3.6 cm across, smooth-edged, upper surface glossy dark green, lower surface pale green with hairs on veins, apex acute to obtuse, lateral veins 10–12 per side, reticulate veins prominent.
• Flowers bloom from April to May, with males in axillary cymes, densely pubescent; female flowers are solitary, small with a white corolla.
• Fruit a yellow to orange rounded to oblong berry, to 3 cm diameter, with persistent enlarged calyx at the base.