How to pronounce “persimmon tree” in English

so, I started really getting into drying tomatoes and peppers and figs. And this was a way that I learned to dry persimmons. It's a Japanese way. You cut the stems so it's like a littleT-shape, and tie a string and then just hang them from a tree and when they dry, they're really good. We had this, this fig tree in Tarzana, I mean a persimmon tree, and thepersimmons, I couldn't stand them because when they're hard, they just have a horrible alum, your mouth puckers; they're inedible. Or, you can let them get soft, like a custard,