Red Flowering Pomegranate blooms.
Image taken at Bravo Lake Botanical Gardens 6-11-11 during berry tasting day.
Red Flowering Pomegranate blooms.
Image taken at Bravo Lake Botanical Gardens 6-11-11 during berry tasting day.
Austin Pomegranate - Punica granatum
This is a great juice variety with high yield - about 1.5 times Wonderful.  Sweet juice with a bare hint of tartness.  A great complex taste, superior to most sweet varieties.  Seed is medium in hardness, chewy.  Resists cracking.  Vigorous grower.  Ripens in late October.  Developed in Central Texas - a cross of two middle-eastern varietes.  Pomegranate in photo supplied by Richard & Marie Ashton from Oak Creek Orchard in Brownwood, Texas.
Austin Pomegranate - Punica granatum
This is a great juice variety with high yield - about 1.5 times Wonderful.  Sweet juice with a bare hint of tartness.  A great complex taste, superior to most sweet varieties.  Seed is medium in hardness, chewy.  Resists cracking.  Vigorous grower.  Ripens in late October.  Developed in Central Texas - a cross of two middle-eastern varietes.  Pomegranate in photo supplied by Richard & Marie Ashton from Oak Creek Orchard in Brownwood, Texas.
Austin Pomegranate - Punica granatum
This is a great juice variety with high yield - about 1.5 times Wonderful.  Sweet juice with a bare hint of tartness.  A great complex taste, superior to most sweet varieties.  Seed is medium in hardness, chewy.  Resists cracking.  Vigorous grower.  Ripens in late October.  Developed in Central Texas - a cross of two middle-eastern varietes.  Pomegranate in photo supplied by Richard & Marie Ashton from Oak Creek Orchard in Brownwood, Texas.
Wonderful Pomegranate - Punica granatum
Extra large.  Blushed red skin.  Flesh rich, red color, juicy, with sharp flavor.  Most well known of the pomegranates.  Shrub or tree to 18 ft.  Ripens: September. Drought tolerant.
Wonderful Pomegranate - Punica granatum
Extra large.  Blushed red skin.  Flesh rich, red color, juicy, with sharp flavor.  Most well known of the pomegranates.  Shrub or tree to 18 ft.  Ripens: September. Drought tolerant.
Wonderful Pomegranate - Punica granatum
Extra large.  Blushed red skin.  Flesh rich, red color, juicy, with sharp flavor.  Most well known of the pomegranates.  Shrub or tree to 18 ft.  Ripens: September. Drought tolerant.
Wonderful Pomegranate - Punica granatum
Extra large.  Blushed red skin.  Flesh rich, red color, juicy, with sharp flavor.  Most well known of the pomegranates.  Shrub or tree to 18 ft.  Ripens: September. Drought tolerant.
Austin Pomegranate - Punica granatum
This is a great juice variety with high yield - about 1.5 times Wonderful. Sweet juice with a bare hint of tartness. A great complex taste, superior to most sweet varieties. Seed is medium in hardness, chewy. Resists cracking. Vigorous grower. Ripens in late October. Developed in Central Texas - a cross of two middle-eastern varietes. Pomegranate in photo supplied by Richard & Marie Ashton from Oak Creek Orchard in Brownwood, Texas.
Austin Pomegranate - Punica granatum
This is a great juice variety with high yield - about 1.5 times Wonderful.  Sweet juice with a bare hint of tartness.  A great complex taste, superior to most sweet varieties.  Seed is medium in hardness, chewy.  Resists cracking.  Vigorous grower.  Ripens in late October.  Developed in Central Texas - a cross of two middle-eastern varietes.  Pomegranate in photo supplied by Richard & Marie Ashton from Oak Creek Orchard in Brownwood, Texas.
Austin Pomegranate - Punica granatum
This is a great juice variety with high yield - about 1.5 times Wonderful. Sweet juice with a bare hint of tartness. A great complex taste, superior to most sweet varieties. Seed is medium in hardness, chewy. Resists cracking. Vigorous grower. Ripens in late October. Developed in Central Texas - a cross of two middle-eastern varietes. Pomegranate in photo supplied by Richard & Marie Ashton from Oak Creek Orchard in Brownwood, Texas.
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