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Punica granatum

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The plant is an erect shrub of the PUNICACEAE family, up to 3 meters high, much branched from the base, having branchlets slender, often ending in a spine. Leaves are simple, oblong-lanceolate, 1–9 by 0.5–2.5 cm; consisting of obtuse or marginate apex, base acute, shiny, glabrous. Flowers are showy, orange red, about 3 cm in diameter; 1–5 borne at branch tips, the others solitary in the highest leaf-axils, sessile or subsessile. Consisting of calyx 2–3 cm long, tubular, lobes erect to recurved, 5–9, thick, coriaceous; petals the same number as the calyx lobes, rounded or very obtuse; from edge hypanthium; filament-free; inferior ovary, ovules numerous; style 1, stigma capitate.

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