Persimmon vs. Kumquat — What's the Difference?

The persimmon is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. The most widely cultivated of these is the Oriental persimmon, Diospyros kaki.

Kumquats (; Chinese: 金桔, gāmgāt or jīnjú), or cumquats in Australian English, are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae. They were previously classified as forming the now-historical genus Fortunella, or placed within Citrus, sensu lato.

Any of various chiefly tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, having hard wood and orange-red fruit with sweet usually soft pulp, especially D. kaki, native to East Asia, and D. virginiana, native to the eastern United States.

An orange-like fruit related to the citruses, with an edible sweet rind and acid pulp.

The fruit of any of these trees.

The East Asian shrub or small tree that yields the kumquat.

A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella, having small, edible, orangelike fruit.

The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

The fruit of any of these plants, having an acid pulp and a thin, edible rind.

An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.

A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica).

Any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella (formerly Citrus) of the rue family (Rutaceae) (especially Citrus Japonica) growing in China and Japan bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp; also, any of the small acid, orange-colored citrus fruits of such plants, used mostly for preserves.

Orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp

Small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp