Of Asian origin. It belongs to the family Ebenaceae and to the genus Diospyros.
Cultivation with short trunk and extended cup slightly branched, pyramidal or globose, deciduous leaves, that detach from the tree and go from red to orange before harvesting, flowers with reproductive system dioic, monoico and hermafrodita and the fruit is a quadrangular berry that curd only in the presence of the chalice.
Its consumption mainly is in fresh and the main producing countries are Japan, China and the United States.
