Punica

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Slo.: granatno jabolko - Habitat: Hedge of grassland among houses, slightly inclined hill slope, southeast aspect, dry place, full sun; skeletal ground; elevation 40 m (130 feet); average precipitations ~ 1000 mm/year, average temperature 12 - 14 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. - Comment: Punica granatum is a tall, often spiny shrub, sometimes a small tree. Its large vividly scarlet-red flowers as well as large (up to 8 cm in diameter, in cultivated plants often larger) orange-red fruits are very showy. Also its leaves are of beautiful color, copper-reddish when young, intensive green during the summer and yellow before they fall off early in winter. Fruits are edible, with many seeds and of an important commercial value. Punica granatum is mostly cultivated but naturalized almost in the whole Mediterranean and elsewhere today. On many places it also grows wild. Its origin is not completely clear. Eventually its native regions lay in Central Asia. The tree is one of the oldest known plants cultivated by men, known already about 5000 years ago. It is the most frequently mentioned in the Bible of all plants. Its uses are many; as a food, in horticulture, as medical plant, in the production of dyes and tannin, in heraldry, etc. A symbol of fertility! Ref.: (1) R. Brus, Drevesa in grmi Jadrana (Trees and bushes of Adria) (in Slovene), Modrijan Pub, (2012), p 318. (2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 328. (3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 152. (4) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 132.

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales France

Samos Greece

Wild pomegranates occur in Armenia, they were flowering on the cliffs of the Vorotan Gorge near Goris.

Samos Greece

Slo.: granatno jabolko - Habitat: Hedge of grassland among houses, slightly inclined hill slope, southeast aspect, dry place, full sun; skeletal ground; elevation 40 m (130 feet); average precipitations ~ 1000 mm/year, average temperature 12 - 14 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. - Comment: Punica granatum is a tall, often spiny shrub, sometimes a small tree. Its large vividly scarlet-red flowers as well as large (up to 8 cm in diameter, in cultivated plants often larger) orange-red fruits are very showy. Also its leaves are of beautiful color, copper-reddish when young, intensive green during the summer and yellow before they fall off early in winter. Fruits are edible, with many seeds and of an important commercial value. Punica granatum is mostly cultivated but naturalized almost in the whole Mediterranean and elsewhere today. On many places it also grows wild. Its origin is not completely clear. Eventually its native regions lay in Central Asia. The tree is one of the oldest known plants cultivated by men, known already about 5000 years ago. It is the most frequently mentioned in the Bible of all plants. Its uses are many; as a food, in horticulture, as medical plant, in the production of dyes and tannin, in heraldry, etc. A symbol of fertility! Ref.: (1) R. Brus, Drevesa in grmi Jadrana (Trees and bushes of Adria) (in Slovene), Modrijan Pub, (2012), p 318. (2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 328. (3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 152. (4) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 132.

another close up of a wild pomegranate

This is what happens naturally, the pomegranate fruit opens on the tree and birds that are attracted to the red seeds, eat them and disperse them.

Its autumn and pomegranate fruit again. We r lucky for the tasty fruits.