Steve Horst

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=silver+false+puffball&t=ffab&iar=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.stanford.edu%2F%7Esiegelr%2Fbayarea%2Fsammcdonald2020%2F4S0A8233%2520silver%2520slime%2520mold%2520-%2520sam%2520mcdonald%2520bioblitz%252006-18-2020%2520Canon%2520EOS%25207D%2520Mark%2520II.jpg

Ok sounds good to me.  Thank you.  I found this online as the closest looking thing to it.

right.  no gills that I can see.

Those are maple logs from my backyard.

Or is it a an insect egg mass?

Trying to upload pics.  Don't know if it will work but.

Bright shiny silver mushroom on one of my shitake logs.  Looks like a blob of "Great stuff' that spray insulation and someone spray painted it silver.

Maypop aka passionflower vine.  The cold hardy kind.  Unique flowers with bees constantly in them getting covered with pollen.  

Here in PA, it pops up at the end of May, loses flowers around October and starts dying back to the ground in November, until next May.

It just should have something to grow on.

Don't know if it fits with your bean pollination, but you may not want to plant maypop in your vegetable garden either as it can spread.

Thanks Greg,

I think you figured it out.  Date plum (diospyros lotus).  I looked up a couple other videos on youtube and found some that had a look more similar to mine as far as the skinny acorn like shape.

What he says is true about the astringency.  They should be dark and a little shriveled to eat.  

Im still curious if any on my other trees will turn out this way and if I got this from the bundle of persimmon trees or from seed or was just a rootstock.  I think at at some point I also had a packet of date plum seeds from tradewinds fruit.

It's nice knowing the variety if I have to look something up or someone else wants to know the type.

They have no seeds.  On the one end in the pulp they seems to have a circle of black dots where the seeds would be.  So you can eat it like a seedless grape or a raisin.

I had similar thing happen.  one male and one female from one green world.  Female looks fine.  Male dead.  Like the roots rotted.  Not even a year in the ground.  One thought is maybe the female was grafted onto a male and that will sucker.  Don't know.

This is a persimmon tree in my yard.  It is one of a bundle of 10 or 12 that I bought from penn state extension about 10 years ago.  I had initially assumed they were all seedlings.  Now I'm pretty sure they might all be clones of certain american persimmon varieties.   I think there were at least three types in that bundle.  One male, one traditional looking wild persimmon, and this one.  

Fruits are very small, like a smallish grape.  I pick them now, after they turn dark and dry a bit, making them less likely to be astringent.  No seeds to be seen.  It has a different branching structure than what I think of as the typical american persimmon.  There is at least one other tree i have from that bundle that I believe is likely the same variety based on the structure but no fruit yet to compare.

There's a small chance I started this from seed.  I started some princess persimmon seeds, but lost track over whether any of them made it and got transplanted into the yard.  

It also happens to look similar to a princess persimmon but not as big or fancy/glossy looking.  

Of all the pictures I see of persimmon fruit on the internet, no fruit is this small.  It's really more of a berry in size.  Is anyone familiar with this?  I am curious.  

If these pictures upload, the taller tree with the larger fruit is the more traditional american persimmon tree and fruit.  Thanks.