| Scientific name: | Punica granatum* |
| Family name: | PUNICACEAE |
| English name: | Pomegranate tree |
| Local name: | Delum |
| Description: |
A large shrub or small tree, to 3.3-5 m tall; branches often with spiny ends. Leaves usually opposite, sometimes alternate, shortly petiolated, without stipules, 2.5-5cm long, entire, smooth and shining, Flowers large, solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils near the ends of branches; petals 5- 7 inserted in the throat of the calyx, crimson. Fruit as large as an orange, 6-7 cm diameter, hard, depressed-globose, yellow or reddish, cavity divided into 5-8 irregular chambers by thin membranous dissepiments; seeds numerous. Seeds 1.2 cm long, polygonal, composed of a thick translucent pink juicy coating, inner coat white.
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| Status: | Only under cultivation |
| Edible parts: | Fruit |
| Ayurvedic usage: Treatment for-
source by instituteofayurveda.org
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