HERBAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS - Punica granatum (POMEGRANATE)

The pomegranate tree is native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region of Asia, Africa and Europe. The fruit was used in many ways as it is today and was featured in Egyptian mythology and art, praised in the Old Testament of the Bible and in the Babylonian Talmud and it was carried by desert caravans for the sake of its thirst-quenching juice.