Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock and Shikoku

and Shikoku

The loquat keeps an upside-down calendar

This conradina haunts a sandy woodland and cutover near the Styx River

the edge of a woodland bed

where the unusual gold flowers and long season earn a place

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock and ShikokuThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the