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Purple Heart
Pomegranate
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Rich
🍬
Sweet
- Size
- Large (nearly 2 lb)
- Shape
- Round
- Flavor
- Rich, juicy flavor, ideal for fresh eating or juicing
- Texture
- Not specified by source
- Ripening window
- Late season (around December in warm climates)
- Best uses
- Fresh eating, juice
- Pollination
- Self-fertile - no pollinator needed
- Tree size
- Shrub form, ~10 ft spacing recommended
- Notes
- Deep purple-red skin with intensely red arils throughout. Excellent pest/disease resistance, good drought and heat tolerance; poor wet-soil tolerance. Zones 8-9.