What season is pomegranate?

Gu Yan, eating pomegranate is to swallow a mouthful of autumn. Summer is not only a comfortable solar term, but also a ripe season for pomegranate. There is a folk proverb, "Pomegranate blooms in summer, and water chestnut dances with swords and spears in autumn equinox", which means pomegranate is a seasonal fruit in summer. Summer is the season to eat pomegranate. Pomegranate promotes fluid production and quenches thirst. The content of vitamin C and vitamin E in pomegranate is very high, and it also contains anthocyanins and red pomegranate polyphenols.

Length1.5 ~ 3cm, width1~ 2cm, and round top; Stamens are numerous, filaments are thin, and they are 13 cm long. The ovary is inferior, with 6 cells in the upper part and 3 cells in the lower part. Style is longer than filament. Berry is nearly spherical, with a diameter of 6~ 12 cm, thick peel and persistent calyx at the top. Most seeds are milky white or red, the exocarp is fleshy and edible, and the endosperm is bony. The flowering period is May-July, and the fruiting period is 9-65438+1October.

Brief introduction of pomegranate

Deciduous pomegranate shrubs or trees, deciduous shrubs or trees, 2~7 meters high, as thin as 10 meters, young branches are often angular, old branches are nearly round, and the top often has spikes. The leaves are opposite or nearly tufted, papery, oblong or obovate, 2~9 cm long and 1~2 cm wide, the top is obtuse or slightly concave or short-pointed, the base is slightly obtuse, the leaves are bright green, the back is light green, hairless, the midvein on the back is convex, the lateral veins are thin and dense, and the petiole is 5~7 mm long.

Flowers bisexual, 1 to several peanuts at the top of branchlets or leaf axils, with short pedicels; Calyx bell-shaped, red or light yellow, thick, 2~3 cm long, with 5~7 cracks at the top, flat lobes, egg-shaped triangle, 8~ 13 mm long, with 1 yellow-green glands at the outer side near the top and mastoid at the edge. Petals are as many as calyx lobes, alternate, born in calyx tube, obovate, red, yellow or white.