Early Jewel
A named persimmon cultivar.
The record
- Parentage
- not recorded
- Origin
- James Claypool breeding programme
- Rights
- rights unknown — No patent, certificate, or trademark found in the sources consulted.
- Also known as
- H-118
- Chromosomes
- A 90-chromosome persimmon
- Species
- Diospyros virginiana
Description
One of the numbered selections out of James Claypool’s private breeding programme, circulating under both its trial number and a later name.
It is recorded here mainly to carry the chromosome note, because that is the field most likely to matter and least likely to appear on a tag. American persimmon has a 60-chromosome and a 90-chromosome race and they do not cross freely. A grower buying a male seedling to pollinate a named female, or making crosses of their own, needs to know which race each plant belongs to — and for most cultivars in the trade, nobody has recorded it.
The Claypool work, like Jerry Lehman’s after it, was private and largely unpublished, which is why its selections reach growers as catalogue entries rather than as release bulletins.
Where to find it
No source recorded. That does not mean the cultivar is unavailable, only that this record does not yet name a nursery carrying it. Point us at one and it goes in.