Hi^^ oops, i know it's late to talk about Yeongdong Dried Persimmons Festival. but better late than never. because this festival is held from December 16 to December 18, i think it's still okay i post about it this day. hehehe :) before it, this is fruit we call as persimmon. honestly, i don't we have this fruit. :) poor me! so here i got some info from my best source Wikipedia. A persimmon is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros in the ebony wood family (Ebenaceae). The word Diospyros means "the fire of Zeus" in ancient Greek.As a tree, it is a perennial plant. The word persimmon is derived from putchamin, pasiminan, or pessamin, from Powhatan, an Algonquian language of the eastern United States, meaning "a dry fruit".Persimmons are generally light yellow-orange to dark red-orange in color, and depending on the species, vary in size from 1.5 to 9 cm (0.5 to 4 in) in diameter, and may be spherical, acorn-, or pumpkin-sh...
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