Pomegranate
ದಾಳಿಂಬೆअनारமாதுளை
Punica granatum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.4 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Lythraceae
Also called Granado
Formerly Granatum punicum, Punica legrellei, Punica nana
When it flowers
Flowers April to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. Türkiye to W. & N. PakistanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–12 ft; Wikipedia 1.5–5 m
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- White, redRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, red, white, yellow; Wikipedia red, white
- Coldest it survives
- -12.1 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; Wikipedia -12 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- granada cordelina, Granada, Granado
- root
- Nocuana-zeha-castilla, Tsapyan, Keralladang
- Indonesian
- Delima
- Portuguese
- Romãzeira, romã
- Chinese
- 安石榴, 石榴, 白石榴
- Persian
- انار
- Russian
- Гранат обыкновенный
- Belarusian
- Гранат звычайны
- Catalan
- Magraner
- Hebrew
- רימון מצוי
- German
- Granatapfel
- French
- Grenadier commun, Grenadier
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Punica granatum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.