| | pomegranate - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | pomegranate, handsome deciduous and somewhat thorny large shrub or small tree (Punica granatum) belonging to the family Punicaceae, native to semitropical Asia and naturalized in the Mediterranean region in very early times. |
 | | It has long been cultivated as an ornamental and for its edible fruit. |
 | | Pomegranates are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Myrtales, family Punicaceae. |
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