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The Wildlife Persimmon tree, unlike many other fruiting trees, ripen in the fall, providing a nutritious food for wildlife in later months. The very large sized persimmons can be eaten straight from the tree, but the animals have learned to recognize that the persimmons become less astringent when left to ripen on the tree in the sunlight after the leaves fall off following the first frost. Unripe persimmon fruits when eaten to excess act as a strong laxative. Horses can develop such a strong appetite for persimmon fruit that they will sometimes eat themselves sick. The grafted, wildlife Japanese persimmon trees ripen in the Fall, when other wildlife food is scarce, and the ripened persimmon fruit is available to wildlife to consume over a long period in the Fall, because the fruits fall only a few at a time over a long period of time. The wildlife Japanese persimmon trees will grow in a wide range of soil types and profiles, and are known to be cold hardy to low temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees below zero with out any apparent injury to the persimmon tree.