Date plum
Diospyros lotus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10.0 m
- wide
- 6.0 m
Ebenaceae
Formerly Dactylus trapezuntinus, Diospyros mediterranea, Diospyros umlovok
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. & SC. Türkiye to KoreaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 8.0 m to 12 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Lotuspflaume
- French
- Plaqueminier lotier
- Italian
- Albero di Sant' Andrea
- Korean
- 고욤, 고욤나무
- Czech
- tomel obecný
- Russian
- Хурма кавказская, Хурма обыкновенная
- Japanese
- マメガキ, ブドウガキ
- Chinese (China)
- 君迁子, 黑枣, 软枣
- Chinese
- 君遷子, 君迁子
- Polish
- Hurma kaukaska
- Turkish
- Hırnık, Kara Hurma, Küçük Trabzon hurması
- Dutch
- Dadelpruim, Lotusboom
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Diospyros lotus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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