| POMEGRANATE |
| Description | ||
| Pomegranate is deciduous shrub or a small tree
with a dark grey bark, 5-8 meters high. Leaves are opposite, oblong, 2.5-6
cm long. Flowers at terminals or auxiliary, solitary, large, orange red.
Calyx persistent, prolonged above the ovary. Petals 1.2-2.5 cm long, thin
and wrinkled. Fruits are large, globose, 5-8 cm across, indehiscent with
red pulp. Seeds are angular. |
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| Origin and Distribution | ||
| The crop is indigenous to Southern Europe and
Mediterranean area. It is distributed in the warmer regions of both the
hemispheres. It is widely cultivated in Iran, Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
In India it is grown in almost all states but cultivated in large scale
in the States of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. It thrives best in
places with a hot dry summer, with irrigation. In humid weather the quality
of fruit is not good. It grows up to a height of 1600 mtr MSL. It can tolerate
alkaline and wet soil. |
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| Uses | ||
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The seed dried with pulp is used as a spice in many dishes. The fruit juice is cooling and refrigerant. The fruit rind is useful in chronic dysentery and diarrhoea. The pulp and seeds are stomachic and are also used as laxative. The flower buds are used in bronchitis. | |
Botanical name |
Family name |
Commercial part |
Punica Granatum |
Punicaseae |
Seed |
| Indian Names | |
| Hindi | : Anardana |
| Bengali | : Dalimb |
| Gujarati | : Dalamb, Dadam |
| Kannada | : Dalimbari |
| Kashmiri | : Daan |
| Malayalam | : Mathalanarakam |
| Marathi | : Dalimb |
| Oriya | : Dalima |
| Punjabi | : Anardana |
| Sanskrit | : Dadima |
| Tamil | : Mathalam pazham |
| Telugu | : Danimma pandu |
| Urdu | : Anardana |
| Assamese | : Dalim |
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