Ebenaceae

Diospirus kaki

Diospirus kaki

Diospyros L. Diospyros kaki L. FIL. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: ağaç Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Habitat: ekilmiş bahçeler ve meyvalıklar Minimum yükseklik: -1 Maksimum yükseklik: -1 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: K. Türkiye ve G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Çin ve Japonya Bulunduğu kareler:A2 A7 C3 C5 C6

D. kaki L. fil., Suppl. Pl. 439 (1781). Ic: Bot. Mag. 133: t. 8127 (1907); Benson, Plant Classification, t. x-43 (1957); Masefield et al., Oxford Book of Food Plants 105, f. 2 (1969).   Deciduous tree to 15 m, with rounded crown. Bark scaly on old trunk. Young shoots and buds conspicuously pubescent. Leaves entire, elliptic-ovate, oblong-ovate to obovate, to 18x9 em, usually broadly cuneate at base, dark green, glabrous and shining above, lighter green and pubescent beneath; petiole 1-1-5 cm, pubescent. Flowers yellowish-white; male flowers in threes, c. 10 mm, with 16-24 stamens; female flowers 12-20 mm. Fruit ovoid to depressed-globose, 5-8 cm diam. with 4 or 8 furrows, orange-red to bright yellow. Fl. 6. Cultivated in gardens and orchards.   Described from Japan, Thimberg (holo. UPS).   N. Turkey & S. Anatolia. A2(E) Istanbul: Sariyer to Ortakoy, Yalt. obs. A2(A) Istanbul: Beylerbeyi to Altunizade, Yalt. obs. A7 Trabzon: Trabzon, Kasapligil. C3 Antalya: Kemer, Yalt. obs. C5 lçel: Mersin, 5. öcal obs. C6 Hatay: Dörtyol - lskenderun district, 5. Öcal obs.   Native in China and Japan; introduced elsewhere. Cultivated throughout N. Turkey for its edible fruit (Japanese persimmon, in Turkish 'Trabzon Hurmasi') and ornament; less commonly grown in S. Anatolia.