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| | Diospyros spp. english |
 | | The name diospyros is derived from the Greek, for the god Zeus or Jupiter and grain, alluding to the edible fruit or "fruit of the gods." |
 | | Diospyros texana-Black persimmon, chapote, common sweetleaf, Florida laurel, horse sugar, Mexican persimmon, Spanish chapote, sweetleaf, Texas persimmon, yellow-wood. |
 | | Diospyros virginiana*-Bara bara, boawood, butterwood, common persimmon, cylil date plum, date plum, eastern persimmon, echtes persimmon, Florida persimmon, plaqueminier, possumwood, seeded plum, simmon, Virginia date palm, winter plum. |
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