Punica granatumL.

pomegranate

WFO wfo-0000468843 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Punica granatum, photographed by Julien Lepage
fig. a Julien Lepage, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202685263
Punica granatum, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. b Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 206018896
Punica granatum, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. c Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202205092
Punica granatum, photographed by Dmitry Ivanov
fig. d Dmitry Ivanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194266161
Punica granatum, photographed by carnifex
fig. e carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202530938
Punica granatum, photographed by AnimalObserverDeniz321
fig. f AnimalObserverDeniz321, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201659425
Punica granatum, photographed by Nico Hernandez
fig. g Nico Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199760781
Punica granatum, photographed by johnyochum
fig. h johnyochum, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193358503

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Flowering n = 959 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 959 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 36 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Granatum punicum St.-Lag.
  • Punica florida Salisb.
  • Punica granatum f. albescens (DC.) Rehder
  • Punica granatum f. flavescens (Sweet) Rehder
  • Punica granatum f. legrelliae (Lem.) Rehder
  • Punica granatum f. multiplex (Sweet) Rehder
  • Punica granatum f. plena Voss
  • Punica granatum f. pleniflora (Hayne) Rehder
  • Punica granatum var. acidula Risso
  • Punica granatum var. alba Risso
  • Punica granatum var. albescens DC.
  • Punica granatum var. flava Loudon
  • Punica granatum var. flavescens Sweet
  • Punica granatum var. frutescens Siebold & Zucc.
  • Punica granatum var. legrelliae Lem.
  • Punica granatum var. lutea Risso
  • Punica granatum var. macrocarpa Risso
  • Punica granatum var. microcarpa Risso
  • Punica granatum var. militensis Risso
  • Punica granatum var. multiplex Sweet
  • Punica granatum var. nana (L.) Pers.
  • Punica granatum var. parvifolia Risso
  • Punica granatum var. pleniflora Hayne
  • Punica granatum var. pumila Weinm.

and 12 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.