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Pomegranate (Punica granatum) One of our older plants, now grown into a tree, may have been here when Charles Stein was alive. It is located north of the chicken coop. All our other pomegranates are of a wonderful old fashioned variety, called, appropriately, Wonderful. The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall. The pomegranate is native to the region from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region and the Caucasus since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, India, the drier parts of southeast Asia, Peninsular Malaysia, the East Indies, and tropical Africa. Introduced into Latin America and California by Spanish settlers in 1769, pomegranate is now cultivated in parts of California and Arizona for juice production. [1][2] In the functional food industry, pomegranate is included in a novel category of exotic fruits called superfruits[3]. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from September to January.[4] In the Southern Hemisphere, it is in season from March to May.
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