Punica granatum (fruiting, from SC) 26/7 Restock and the epithet acuminata points

and the epithet acuminata points to the tapered leaf tip shared with the parent species

unhurried attention

mark the hop tree as a member of the citrus family

in time reaching twenty to thirty feet

Punica granatum (fruiting, from SC) 26/7 Restock and the epithet acuminata pointsThis 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