What kind of "fruit" is this??

[NCRemington700]

While hanging a couple of stands this weekend at my farm we found this by the edge of the bean field. The branches were hanging out in the field and the tracks around it suggest the deer are keying on them...along with the beans. My neighbor thinks its a crab apple. Keep in mind I'm in SC. One pic is the "fruit" and the other is the tree/leaves.

[jmbuckhunter]

Persimmon, deer love em.

[NCRemington700]

That's what my original thought was too. I guess they just look funny since they aren't ripe. Either way I think they are good to have around!!

[virginiashadow]

I killed a 7 point right off a bunch of persimmon trees the first week of season about 5 years ago. I found the trees in June and hunted them twice the first week before that buck walked by....hunt those suckers!

[mobow]

Yup. Perssimon. One way to tell for sure.....Go eat one.....LOL...if you pucker up......No, don't do that, it's unpleasant.....That's what they are though. Deer candy. Delicious deer candy.

[NCRemington700]

I think we've got a pretty good set up for this stand. I glassed this field about 2 weeks ago and saw 20+ deer in less than 2 hours. Here's the stand and the persimmon tree...along the edge of a bean field at my farm. Think this stand will produce?

[121553]

Watermelon

[Baybuzzard]

Judging by the tree pic it might be a wild plum. Persimmons grow straight & tall. Plums are bushier. Either way the deers eat em

[SouthernStrut56]

Not a plum, that's 100% absotively posilutely a persimmon, you can tell by the leaves and the flower part at the top of the fruit. The bark is also easy to identify. I have 3 huge ones at the edge of a field, VERY similar to that setup picture NCRemi posted. My stand is almost in the exact place, but a little further into the woods. I checked em this past weekend when I went camping, and they are looking excellent. I also found a big muscadine vine comin out of a tree right beside the persimmon trees that I had never seen before. Not to mention the countless white oaks all around my stand up on a hill above all this luscious fruit. I didn't get to hunt much last year early on, so I missed the parties all the deer had when they fell. I hunted em twice with no luck, didn't hit it perfect I guess. But this year I'm gonna be sure at least two nannies die with a mouthful of fruit under this stand!

Here's a page from a great site.
http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/persimmon/persimmon.html

[mofireman]

Definitely a persimmon. I've got one or two on the land that I hunt and once they get ripe and start falling to the ground, the deer come in like magnets!