Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Punica granatum

Flowers and leaves. Photographer José María Escolano, Spain

Fruit. Photographer Augustus Binu, unknown place

Leafy branches with fruit. Photographer Peripatesy, Morocco

Common name

Pomegranate

Family

Lythraceae

Where found

Garden escape. Sydney area.

Notes

Introduced deciduous tree or shrub to about 5 m high. Fruit fleshy, edible. Leaves opposite each other or in clusters, 2–7 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed. Leaves turning yellow in autumn before falling. Flowers orange-red, with 5-7 petals each 20–25 mm long, crimped on the margins. Flowers single or in few flowered clusters. Fruit brownish yellow flushed with red, spherical, about 7 cm diameter. Seeds numerous, each surrounded by a juicy translucent pulp.  

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Punica~granatum (accessed 3 February, 2021)