Trees & Plants

Pomegranate

Annaaru

Punica granatum L.

Cultivated in homesteads for edible fruits The fruits are also useful as a remedy for anaemia, hyperdipsia, ophthalmodynia, pectoral diseases, bronchitis and otalgia. The flowers are styptic to the gums and are useful in vomiting, ophthalmodynia, ulcers, pharyngodynia and hydroce

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uses: The fruits are also useful as a remedy for anaemia, hyperdipsia, ophthalmodynia, pectoral diseases, bronchitis and otalgia. The flowers are styptic to the gums and are useful in vomiting, ophthalmodynia, ulcers, pharyngodynia and hydrocele. SUIP or .L.O/OAF
family: Punicaceae
synonym: Punica spinosa Lam.
description: Shrubs; branchlets terete, usually ending in spines. Leaves glabrous, × lustrous 19-35 8-12 mm, oblong- for lanceolate to obovate or elliptic, subpetiolate, entire, apex sub-acute to obtuse. Flowers Th scarlet red or white, conspicuous, 3 cm or more across. Calyx 20-35 mm long, indented slightly above the middle, reddish, succulent; lobes 5-7. Petals and stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx. Petals 16- × 20 10-12 mm, broadly obovate, wrinkled, alternating with the sepal lobes. Filaments multiseriate, persistent. Ovary subglobose, reddish; stigma simple. Fruit globose, 2-8 cm in diam, pale red to scarlet, partitioned by thin leathery yellow septa; seeds red or pink, angular, testa thick, fleshy and juicy.
native range: Iran and the Himalayas in Northern India
distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics
english names: Pomegranate
flowering fruiting: March – July
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads for edible fruits