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2 unusual facts about pomegranate


Chinese Apple

Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is called Chinese Apple in British English

Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Mecklenburg

The bronze grave slab with the life-sized image of the Duchess resting on a Pomegranate blanket, first covered her tomb at the main altar of the church of the Black Monastery in Wismar until 1880.


Carbonic anhydrase inhibitor

Ellagitannins extracted from the pericarps of Punica granatum, the pomegranate, such as punicalin, punicalagin, granatin B, gallagyldilactone, casuarinin, pedunculagin and tellimagrandin I, are highly active carbonic anhydrase inhibitors.

Duponchelia fovealis

Hosts include a wide range of mostly herbaceous ornamental plants and field crops, such as Anemone, Anthurium, Begonia, Cyclamen, Euphorbia, Gerbera, Kalanchoe, Limonium, Rosa, certain aquatic plants, corn, cucumbers, peppers, pomegranate, tomatoes, and certain herbs.

Hershey's Special Dark

The three varieties are solid chocolate; chocolate with macadamia nuts and dried cranberries; and chocolate with cranberries, blueberries, pomegranate, and almonds.

Mardakan Arboretum

This helped to ground the development of subtropical plant cultivation, selection and improvement of the sorts of pomegranate, olive, fig, Asian persimmon, and also to divide the park into districts scientifically.

Punica

The only other species in the genus, the Socotra pomegranate (Punica protopunica), is endemic to the island of Socotra.

The name is derived from the Latin word for the pomegranate, malum punicum, meaning "Carthaginian apple".

St John of God Health Care

The pomegranate symbol was chosen by the Sisters of St John of God to reflect the order’s patron Saint, John of God, who ministered to the sick and poor in the Spanish town of Granada – ‘pomegranate’ in Spanish – in the early 16th century.


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