News from the preserves, parks and backyards of Princeton, NJ. The website aims to acquaint Princetonians with our shared natural heritage and the benefits of restoring native diversity and beauty to the many preserved lands in and around Princeton.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Persimmon Finally Within Reach
Knowing plants can change the way you see a town like Princeton. Students crossing this bridge over Washington Road to the new chemistry building might appreciate its form, but I doubt there's one in a thousand who would find great meaning in the tide of foliage that has finally reached parity with the railing.
I, however, have been waiting with anticipation, invested with special knowledge of what that foliage bears.
There, in the leaf nodes, can't you see it? Persimmons, or the beginnings thereof. By luck or the planter's intent, this persimmon is a female, which means this could be the year that we can, at last, reach through the mesh with a Chaplinesque nonchalance, and pluck ripe fruit from a persimmon tree.
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Oh WONDERFUL. Thank you for the tip.
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