Distal 1/3 of leaf margins are crenate to serrate with entire margins about the leaf base. Leaf base is oblique, as is typical of the Elm family (Ulmaceae).
Smooth grayish brown bark takes on blackish margins and warty growths with age, often with shallow furrows and ridges.
Chamaecyparis obtusa: Chamaecyparis from Greek chamai, meaning 'dwarf', and kuparissos, meaning 'cypress'; obtusa, meaning 'blunt', possibly referring to the leaf tip.
Slow growing formal pyramidal tree will stay small for many years.
Flat sprays of scale-like leaves, often in horizontal tiers.
1/4" female cones produced in fall. 'Aurea' cultivar has yellow new growth in the sun.
Diospyros kaki: Diospyros from Greek dios meaning 'divine' and pyros meaning 'wheat', so named for this tree's edible fruit; kaki from the Japanese name for this plant kaki-no-ki.
Upright, often wide-spreading habit
Somewhat large ovate leaves lend a coarse texture.
Small (3/4") white to yellow flowers. The calyx will harden into a brown 'wood rose' as seen on top of the fruit.
Bright orange fruit is the persimmon of commerce. Hachiya variety is pictured.
Ficus carica: Ficus, Latin name for this species, the edible fig; carica refers to Caria, an area in Asia Minor (in what is now Turkey), where many figs were cultivated in ancient times.
Trees are often multi-trunked, but can be pruned to standard.
Palmately lobed leaves.
Flowers form inside fruit, and are pollinated by a burrowing wasp.
Fruit forms on old and new wood, producing two crops a year in summer and fall.