This week we have been enjoying eating the first really ripe kakis. I think they may also be called persimmon fruit. They always amaze me as to start with they are more or less invisible on the tree, being green. Then at the point that the leaves drop, the fruit start to ripen and the tree is laden with what look just like oranges. We had to be taught that they are best left until almost past ripe, feeling like a rather soft balloon - cut out the top, and drizzle port or brandy on, and start eating - delicious! The only problem is that the blackbirds and starlings love them too.
Mind you, I wouldn't want a tree of our own, just too many to eat. We just appreciate being given them!
