A deciduous shrub or small tree in the family Lythraceae, order Myrtales, superorder Rosanae. It bears edible reddish-purple fruit berries with seeds and pulp produced from the ovary of a single flower.
    

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Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI

A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.

Birds and plants from Persia, including turtledoves, senna plant, terpentine plant, pomegranate flowers and tree and pumpkin . Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1704.

A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a fruit (pomegranate) resembling the human jaw, and (below) a jaw-bone and teeth. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

Pomegranate

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Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI

A border of plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D., with the main plants labelled. Photograph.

A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a fruit (pomegranate) resembling the human jaw, and (below) a jaw-bone and teeth. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

Birds and plants from Persia, including turtledoves, senna plant, terpentine plant, pomegranate flowers and tree and pumpkin . Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1704.