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Pomegranate
Punica granatum
A leathery fruit of the dry Mediterranean, packed with arils — juice and seed, not a rind tea.
Flavor
Sweet-tart juice, a little tannin from the pith if you are careless. Seed crunch is the point.
Symptoms
fatigue, indigestion
In favor
A shrub that likes heat and neglect once established
Against
The rind is not a snack
Days to harvest
A few years to a first crop; then autumn
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