Species of bush or small tree of Asia; it is 16 or 23 feet in height, has elliptic to lance-shaped, bright-green leaves, long and handsome axillary orange-red flowers borne toward the ends of the branchlets, and a red fruit, which is a calyx is tubular and persistent and has five to seven lobes.The fruit is the size of a large orange. While the pomegranate is considered indigenous to Iran and neighbouring countries, its cultivation encircled the Mediterranean and extended through the Arabian Peninsula, Afghanistan, and India in ancient times. It is commonly cultivated in the Americas from the warmer parts of the United States to Chile.
