Diospyros kaki
(persimmon)

Preferred Scientific Name

• Diospyros kaki Thunb.

Preferred Common Name

• persimmon

Other Scientific Names

• Diospyros chinensis Blume, nom. nud.
• Diospyros kaki L. f.

International Common Names

• English: Japanese persimmon; Japanese persimmon tree; kaki; Kaki plum tree; Oriental persimmon
• Spanish: Caqui; kaki; Kaki del Japon
• French: kaki; Plaqueminier kaki
• Portuguese: caqui

Local Common Names

• China: shizi
• Germany: Chinesischer Dattelpflaumenbaum; Kakipflaumenbaum
• Italy: Cachi
• Japan: kaki
• Netherlands: Japaneese persimmon

EPPO code

• DOSKA (Diospyros kaki)

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Ebenales
•                         Family: Ebenaceae
•                             Genus: Diospyros
•                                 Species: Diospyros kaki

Major host of:

Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental fruit fly); Cercospora kaki (angular: Japanese persimmon leaf spot); Ceroplastes japonicus (tortoise wax scale); Diaporthe eres (apple leaf, branch and fruit fungus); Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing drosophila); Eudocima fullonia (fruit-piercing moth); Halyomorpha halys (brown marmorated stink bug); Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (black tea thrips); Homona magnanima (oriental tea tortrix); Mycosphaerella nawae (circular: persimmon leaf spot); Oemona hirta (lemon tree borer); Parabemisia myricae (bayberry whitefly); Parthenolecanium persicae (peach scale); Persimmon virus A; Phyllactinia kakicola; Planococcus kraunhiae (Japanese mealybug); Ponticulothrips diospyrosi; Pseudococcus longispinus (long-tailed mealybug); Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (bacterial canker or blast (stone and pome fruits)); Scirtothrips dorsalis (chilli thrips); Stathmopoda masinissa (persimmon fruit, moth); Trichodorus (stubby root nematodes); Xylosandrus germanus (black timber bark beetle)

Minor host of:

Aleurocanthus spiniferus (orange spiny whitefly); Alternaria alternata (alternaria leaf spot); Anastrepha fraterculus (South American fruit fly); Anastrepha ludens (Mexican fruit fly); Anastrepha suspensa (Caribbean fruit fly); Aromia bungii (red necked longicorn); Bactrocera jarvisi (Jarvis' fruit fly); Bactrocera neohumeralis; Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly); Belonolaimus longicaudatus (sting nematode); Botryotinia fuckeliana (grey mould-rot); Brevipalpus chilensis (Chilean false red mite); Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly); Ceroplastes ceriferus (Indian wax scale); Ceroplastes destructor (white wax scale); Colomerus vitis (grape erineum mite (USA)); Conotrachelus nenuphar (plum curculio); Cuscuta japonica (Japanese dodder); Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly); Diplodia seriata (grapevine trunk disease); Eutypa lata (Eutypa dieback); Glomerella cingulata (anthracnose); Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus (spiral nematode); Hoplolaimus galeatus; Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae; Lobesia botrana (European grapevine moth); Lopholeucaspis japonica (Japanese baton shaped scale); Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug); Monilinia fructigena (brown rot); Orgyia leucostigma (white-marked tussock moth); Pantomorus cervinus (Fuller's rose beetle); Penicillium expansum (blue mould of stored apple); Persimmon cryptic virus; Phacidiopycnis washingtonensis; Phytophthora cactorum (apple collar rot); Phytophthora citrophthora (brown rot of citrus fruit); Phytoplasma ziziphi; Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale); Planococcus citri (citrus mealybug); Pratylenchus loosi (root lesion nematode); Pseudococcus viburni (obscure mealybug); Retithrips syriacus (black vine thrips); Rhizobium radiobacter (crown gall); Rhizobium rhizogenes (gall); Rhizopus arrhizus (barn rot of tobacco); Selenothrips rubrocinctus (red-banded thrips); Sesamia nonagrioides (Mediterranean corn stalk borer); Thaumatotibia leucotreta (false codling moth (FCM)); Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Asian ambrosia beetle)

Wild host of:

Aleurothrixus floccosus (woolly whitefly)

Associated with (not a host):

Cyphellophora sessilis

Host of (source - data mining):

Adoretus sinicus (Chinese rose beetle); Ascotis selenaria (cotton geometrid); Bactrocera zonata (peach fruit fly); Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly); Bemisia tabaci (MEAM1) (silverleaf whitefly); Ceratitis rosa (Natal fruit fly); Ceroplastes rubens (red wax scale); Conogethes punctiferalis (castor capsule borer); Cryptoblabes gnidiella (citrus pyralid); Dolycoris baccarum (sloe, bug); Endoclita excrescens (swift moth, Japanese); Frankliniella intonsa (thrips, flower); Helicoverpa armigera (cotton bollworm); Kerria lacca (lac insect); Lymantria xylina; Pestalotiopsis theae (grey: tea blight); Phellinus noxius (brown tea root disease); Phomopsis theicola; Spodoptera litura (taro caterpillar); Tetranychus kanzawai (kanzawa spider mite)