Pomegranate

Fiery flowers, ancient fruit, and real toughness. Pomegranates give a Southern garden brilliant orange-red bloom all summer, handsome fruit in fall, and the kind of heat and drought tolerance that turns a hard, sunny corner into an asset.

4 plants in this collection

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№ 001
Punica granatum 'Eight Ball' pomegranate with round near-black fruit on the branch
Pomegranate 'Eight Ball'
Punica granatum ‘Eight Ball’Pomegranate 'Eight Ball'

There are pomegranates grown for fruit, and pomegranates grown for flowers, and then there is 'Eight Ball', grown for sheer astonishment. Where the species bears globes the color of garnets, Punica granatum 'Eight Ball' ripens fruit so dark, round, and dusky that the pomegranates look dipped in coal, closer to the ball the cultivar is named for than to anything in the produce aisle. The color runs bone-deep: the fruit is so loaded with anthocyanin pigment that even the cambium beneath the bark shows purple.

Hardiness
Zones 7–9
Light
Full Sun / Part Shade
Height
8–10 ft.
Spread
6–8 ft.
Bloom
Orange
Plant type
Shrub
Traditional use
digestive health, heart support, general wellness, topical applications
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№ 002
Punica granatum fruiting pomegranate with orange-red flowers and large red edible fall fruit
Pomegranate
Punica granatum (fruiting, from SC)Pomegranate

This is the pomegranate grown the old way, for the fruit. Punica granatum is a deciduous Middle Eastern shrub of narrow, glossy leaves and vivid orange-red flowers, followed by the large, leathery-skinned, garnet-seeded fruits for which the plant has been cultivated since antiquity. Woodlanders raised this particular selection from seed of a good fruiting specimen in upstate South Carolina, and the plant may well represent 'Wonderful', the widely grown commercial variety, proven here as a dependable cropper in the southern garden.

Hardiness
Zones 8–10
Light
Full Sun
Height
10–12 ft.
Spread
6–8 ft.
Bloom
Orange
Plant type
Shrub
Traditional use
digestive health, heart support, general wellness, topical applications
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