ID / Confirmation of Fruit - SOLVED

This shrub which is currently about a meter tall is in my friend's garden and I think it is a
Diospyros (Persimmon). Can anyone ID or confirm my thoughts please.





Thank you in advance.

 

The fruit looks like pepino, so does the flower?

 

I think you will find persimmon is a tree.
When I last had a go at pepino, it was a sprawling plant that didn't really like our short summers.

The fruit should taste similar to a melon although belonging to the same family as tomato.

 

Hi Pete. Don't think it is a Peoino (Cucumber here) ... neither do they (Portuguese). Here is another fruit photo ... the plant is only a year or so old given to them by a friend, the Portuguese are very bad at knowing the names of fruit and flora ...

 

I'd put money on it.
They sell them in Morrisons, the purple lines are a dead give away.

Pepino, is Solanum muricatum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_muricatum

 

It's definitely not persimmon, Diospyros. As pete said, that's a tree, with white flowers and rounded fruits that turn a uniform bright orange. Looks like Solanum muricatum to me too

 

Thank you @pete and @noisette47 I will send the link along to my friend ... she and her father surely would have known if it was Diospyros anyway!

 

Yes, my money's on pepino. The flowers are Solanaceae. Persimmon, as others have said, is a small tree with nondescript flowers and 4 prominent sepals. I used to live in China and my neighbours had one that shed spent flowers over the wall.