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  • COMMON NAME: Pomegranate
  • ARABIC: الرمان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Punica granatum L.
  • SYNONYMS: Punica florida Salisb.
  • FAMILY: PUNICACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Fruits (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Commonly cultivated for edible fruits (pomegranate).
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000468843 https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/554129-1 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Ornamental plant. Edible fruit. medicinal plant.
Shrubs or small trees, 2-3 m tall, glabrous. Branches and branchlets 4-angled, becoming terete with age, often terminating as indurate spines. Petiole 2-10 mm; leaf blade adaxially shiny, lanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or oblong, 2-9 × 1-2 cm, base attenuate, apex obtuse or mucronate. Floral tube red-orange or pale yellow, campanulate-urceolate, 2-3 × 1-1.5 cm; sepals 5-9, erect, deltate. Petals 5-9, bright red-orange [or white], obovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2 cm, apex rounded or obtuse. Stamens numerous, included to exserted. Ovary 8-13-loculed, in 2 or 3 superposed layers, lower locules with axile placentation, upper ones with apparent parietal placentation. Fruit globose, leathery berries, variable in color, red to yellow-green or red-brown, 5-12 cm in diam., crowned by persistent sepals, irregularly dehiscent. Seeds obpyramidal within juicy sarcotestal layer, ruby-red, pink, or yellowish white. Fl. Mar-Jul.
Cultivated, Grows in gardens, parks, homes, and roadsides.
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