Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. [wood and wood by product]
9. wood (plant material)
10. [wood by composition or origin]
11. hardwood
12. persimmon (wood)

Anotations

Scope note:

Wood of the species Diospyros digyna, native to eastern Mexico, Central America, and south to Colombia. The wood is yellowish to deep-yellow with black markings near the heart of old trunks; it is compact and suitable for cabinetwork. Reports of dark wood utilized for furniture are probably the result of confusion with other species of the genus Diospyros.