Beach plums ( Prunus maritima) won't get to be very large, which means they can work well in smaller yards as a showpiece.

Saplings from a persimmon tree that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima were planted in an event at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday. U.N. employees planned the event ...

It was then, also, when a persimmon tree in her garden bore fruit for the first time. The ripening fruit felt to her like a gift from her deceased husband, and she could not stem her tears.