Pomegranate - Punica granatum ( edit )

Botany
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae
Sub-family: Punicoideae
(subfam & crops)
Species: Punica granatum
Common name: Pomegranate

Vertical photograph ( אד )

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Be' er Milcah, Israel - September 2011 (more photos)

Origin
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Mesopotamia
(other crops from this region )

Uses

Main use:
fruit
Harvest method:
hand picking
Shelf life:
medium shelf life
Yield first season:
7 kg/tree
Yield top season:
25 kg/tree
Parameter Concerning part Quality Crop's name Proportion Top-50
Edibility
  • fruit
  • seed/nut
delicatesy
Medicinal
fruit
low
 ascorbic acid
362 mg/l
372 mg/l
 medicals
Lipids seed/nut
(solvent extraction
)
good
pomegrane seed oil
4%/seed
5%/seed
 liphids
Apiculture:
good
 honey
Fruit:
very good
 fruits
Nut:
low
 nuts
Fodder:
low
 fodder
Wood stem / wood
good
pomegranate wood
 760ρ 780ρ timber
Fuel: stem / wood 4.75 credits 4,400 kcal/kg fuelwood
Minor uses:








  • alcohol
  • apiculture
  • fruit
  • oil
  • ornamental
  • timber

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Plant Details
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Be' er Milcah, Israel - September 2011 (more photos)

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Crown
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
Height:
8
 m tallest
Crown width:
6
 m widest
Planting distance:
250
 cm
Row distance:
600
 cm
Growing speed:
slow
 fastest
Shade tolerance:
full sun
 umbra

Roots
Parameter Value Top-50
RootSystem:
deep
 hexagon
MycorRhiza:
endo-mycorrhizae
 AM-plants
Symbiotic fungi:
Glomus intraradices
 M-fungi
N-fixing:
not able to
 N-plants
Symbiotic bacteria:
- No bacteria -
 N-bact.

Crop Timing
Parameter Value Unit Top-50
First flowering: 7 - 8 Years latest
Soonest commercial removal:
50
 Years fastest
Lifespan:
100
 Years oldest
InterCropModel(ICM):
Annuals and AfzeliaMpingo

Regeneration
Parameter Value Top-50
Flower morphology: hermaphroditic
 specials
Pollinators:
bees
 specials
Allelopathy: not allelopathic resists
Abscission: evergreen specials
Invasiveness: a bit invasive weeds
Thorns: thorns fencers

Environment
Parameter min optimal max Unit Top-50
Altitude: 0m 750 m 1,500m meters above sea-level highest
Temperature: -11°C 15°C 40°C Celcius hardiest
Rainfall: 400 mm 950 mm 1,500 mm mm/year (litres/m2) dryest
Soil-pH: 5.5 7.0 pH dryest
Soil-texture:
sand
Climate:
tropical

Seeds
Parameter Value Unit
Seed storage:
orthodox
Seed viability:
2
 months
Seed weight:
70,000
80,000
 seeds/kg

Tolerances
Parameter Value Top-50
Salt tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Wind tolerance:
tolerant
 tolerants
Fire tolerance:
a bit tolerant
 tolerants

Pests and Diseases
Pests:
  • Anastrepha ludens
  • Dacus dorsalis
  • Dacus zonatus
  • Indarbela quadrinotata
  • Virachola isocrates
  • Indarbela tetraonis

 Diseases:
  • Twig cancer
  • Anthracnose

Propagation instruction
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  • (1) Store harvested seeds in water or in the fruit at room temperature
  • (2) Soak the seeds overnight in warm water before sowing.
  • (3) press the seeds twice its size in the soil soil.
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(more photos) Mamelodi, South Africa - 20 October 2015
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Additional Photos
Stem photo: Crop's photo:
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Be'er Milcah, Israel - 2011 (more photos) (more photos)