Current as a resident of Provence, in June I see pomegranates flourish, their bright color,
and a bright vermilion more wet weather, a late May.
Dictionary Furetière in 1690
Pomegranat tree : tree that bears grenades. There pomegranate flowers, fruit & pomegranate. This tree is neither large nor high. Its wood is yellow, and ash bark. Its leaves are semblabes those of the olive, and have a perfect greenness as myrtle. They are divided by small red veins interlaced & hanging from the tail of the same color. Its branches are soft and a little tricky. Its flowers are gleaming scarlet &, and resemble those of wild pepper with leaves & cut open like a star, with a small grain hanged in the middle of their capitulature, such as the rose ...
The book on medicinal plants of Emile Perrot (completed by H. Moyse) indicates that the drugstore used mainly root bark as ténifuge (against tapeworm)
Other names: Punica granatum L. - Granatacées. -
France: Arosse, Balaustier, Granatier, Migranier.
Deutschland: Granatbaum, Granat, Gameine Granate.
England: Pomegranat, Pomegranat tree.
Italia: Granato
España: Granado Mangrano
Photography of the week 24 of 2012 |
