2, pomegranate , deciduous trees or shrubs; deciduous shrubs or trees, 2-7 meters high, sparse up to 10 meters; young branches are often angular, old branches nearly rounded, and the tip is often with acute long spines. Leaves opposite or nearly fascicled, papery, oblong or obovate, 2-9 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, apex obtuse or retuse or mucronate, base slightly obtuse, leaf surface bright green, abaxially light green, glabrous, midvein raised abaxially, lateral veins fine and dense; petiole 5-7 mm long. Flowers bisexual, 1 to several in apical branchlets or leaf axils, shortly pedicellate; calyx campanulate, red or yellowish, thick, 2-3 cm long, apically 5-7-lobed, lobes spreading, ovate-triangular, 8-13 mm long, outside with 1 yellowish-green gland near tip, margin papillate; petals as many as calyx lobes, alternate, borne in calyx tube, obovate, red, yellow, or white, 15-3 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, apex rounded; stamens numerous, filaments weak, 13 cm long; ovary inferior, distally 6-loculed, a parietal placenta, proximally 3-loculed a median placenta, style longer than filament. Berry subglobose, 6-12 cm in diameter, with thick pericarp and apical persistent calyx. Seeds numerous, creamy white or red, outer testa fleshy, edible, inner testa bony. Flowering in May-July, fruiting in September-October.
3. Sweet, sour, astringent and warm in nature, it has the efficacy of insecticide, astringent, astringent, dysentery and so on. Pomegranate fruit is rich in nutrients, vitamin C content is one or two times higher than apples and pears.