Punica Granatum Seeds

Punica granatum is a shrub or small tree, 5-8m. high, considered to be a native of Iran, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, found growing wild in the warm vallyeys and outer hills of the Himalaysa between 900 and 1800m and cultivated throughout India.  Bark smooth, dark grey; branchlets sometimes spiniscent; leaves 2.0-8.0cm long, oblong or obovate, shining above; flowers usually scarlet red, sometimes yellow, 3.7-5.0cm long and as much across, mostly solitary or 2-4 together; fruits globose, crowned by persistent calyx, with a coriaceous woody rind and an interior septate with membranous walls, containing numerous seeds; seeds angular with a fleshy testa with is red, pink or whitish.