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With this specialization, it is reasonable to expect the pomegranate to spread throughout the world with the support of the animal kingdom. But no, his possessions are more than modest. Here - in the very south: across the Caucasus and the mountains of Central Asia. Abroad - in neighboring Iran, Afghanistan and North India. That seems to be all.
However, maybe this is not accidental. Mother Nature's pomegranate turned out to be unfinished in other respects. It is unclear if it is deciduous or not? In the forest and in the garden, it is clearly deciduous. And a little moved to the greenhouse - it becomes evergreen. In India, it is also evergreen, although it seems not everywhere. It is believed that it was not deciduous before. It became such by force, during the Tertiary period, when it got colder on the planet and had to be rebuilt. I haven't had time to get used to it yet ...
Botanist O. Kulkov from the South Uzbek experimental station did a lot to make the tree work. He gave double, triple doses of fertilizer. He fed with microelements. Didn't help. He also applied more severe measures of influence: he ringed the trunks, pulled large branches with wire, sawed off the roots. Wounded trees always respond to such execution with a bumper harvest. The pomegranate didn't react in any way.
Gardeners have found that the pomegranate has another important flaw in biology - the cracking of the fruit. In some varieties, like a watermelon, just touch it with a knife - it will crack. And the juice will flow. Cause? The rind stops growing and the grains continue to pour. In particular, the fruits of wild trees in the forest often crack. The weather plays the role of a knife. At first, biologists could not understand: what does a grenade need to crack the fruit? Some believed it was freezing. Others are rains. Still others, on the contrary, believed that the weather should be dry. Then it turned out that any reason was at work. Both frost and warmth. Especially if the transition is abrupt. In a dry and warm autumn, as soon as a freeze breaks out or it rains, the fruits begin to crack.
In this regard, please pay attention to one fun fact. Gardeners have long wanted to grow pomegranate fruits without seeds. To get a glass of juice under the skin! And no bones to spit out later. The watermelon managed to get such fruits. Although the seedless fruits of the pomegranate grew, they did not have juicy pulp. She disappeared along with the seeds, because she herself is a part of the seed, its appendage. And the fruits grew as dry as that of the second species from Socotra Island! A. Smirnov. Tops and roots
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The pomegranate has everything red. And the fruits. And flowers. Stamens and pistils. And even leaves when young. Why such a catchy appearance? Flowers - counting on pollinators. Fruits for seed carriers.
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