Pomegranate: Punica granatum
AC Sweet
Developed in Beaver Dam, Arizona.
Zone
• 8a?
Color
• red skin, pink arils
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
A few nurseries list AC Sweet as being hardy down to zone 6, but I highly doubt it. can it survive zone 7b? no other soft seeded pomegranate is that cold hardy. No one talks about this variety.
Afganski
Zone
• 7b
Fruit
• sweet-tart? (tart)
• medium seeds? (hard)
• seedy
• medium seeds? (hard)
• seedy
Agat
Developed in southern Russia.
Color
• red skin
Growth
• dwarf and spreading
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Yield
• very productive
Al Sirin Nar
Originated in Azerbaijan or Turkmenistan.
Zone
• 7b
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• hard seeds
• hard seeds
Yield
• very productive
Ambrosia
Developed in California.
Zone
• 8b
Color
• pink skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• medium seeds
• large fruit
• medium seeds
• large fruit
Angel Red
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• early
Color
• red skin, red arils
Fruit
• sweet?
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Ariana
Originated in Turkmenistan.
Zone
• 8
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart to tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Austin
Originated in Syria.
Zone
• 7b? (8)
Color
• red skin, red arils
Fruit
• large fruit (1 lb or more)
Azadi
Originated in Persia.
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• early-mid?
Color
• orange skin, pink arils
Fruit
• sweet and slightly astringent
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Cana
Originated in Palestine.
Fruit
• sweet
Chernaya Roza
Originated in Turkmenistan.
Color
• dark purple skin
Fruit
• tart
• medium hard seeds
• medium hard seeds
Chernaya Roza is Russian for 'Black Rose'.
Crimson Sky
Alias
• Nititski Ranni
Zone
• 7b
Ripens
🍎
• early-mid?
Color
• red or pink skin, burgundy or red arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• medium hard seeds
• medium hard seeds
Afflictions
• Resistant to splitting.
Desertnyi
Originated in Turkmenistan.
Zone
• 8
Ripens
🍎
• early-mid?
Color
• red or burgundy skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Some images imply that Desertnyi has an orange-pink skin color, but this does not seem to be the case when the fruit is fully ripe.
Eve
Developed in California.
Zone
• 7b? (8)
Ripens
🍎
• late
Color
• red skin, pink arils
Eversweet
Developed in California.
Zone
• 8b
Color
• red skin, yellow arils
Growth
• semi-dwarf, 8-10ft in height
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Eversweet develops a sweet flavor before maturity.
Fleishmann
Selected in Fallbrook, San Diego County, California. Discovered in the 1950's.
Zone
• 8b
Color
• pink skin, pink arils
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Gissarskii Rozovyi
Originated in Turkmenistan.
Zone
• 8
Ripens
🍎
• early-mid?
Color
• pink and yellow skin, red arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Golden Globe
Developed in California.
Zone
• 8b
Color
• yellow skin, pink arils, red arils
Fruit
• sweet
• large fruit (up to 2 pounds)
• large fruit (up to 2 pounds)
Grenada
Zone
• 8a
Ripens
🍎
• early? (very early)
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart? (sweet)
Grenada is a less tart, earlier ripening bud mutation of Wonderful.
Haku Botan
Originated in Japan
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• mid-late (late)
Color
• yellow skin, yellow arils
Fruit
• tart
• medium hard seeds
• medium hard seeds
Haku Botan produces double white to slightly yellow flowers.
Ink
Zone
• 8b
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• medium seeds
• medium seeds
Kaim Anor
Originated in Azerbaijan.
Ripens
🍎
• early
Color
• pink skin, red arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart? (sweet)
• hard seeds
• hard seeds
The arils of Kaim Anor come out easier than most varieties.
Kaj Acik Anor
Originated in the Uzbek-Tadzhik region.
Zone
• 7b
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• hard seeds
• hard seeds
Kaj Acik Anor and Salavatski may be able to avoid severe damage from late frost better than most other varieties.
Kara Bala Miursal
Bud mutation of Bala Miursal. Originated in Azerbaijan.
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• medium hard seeds
• medium hard seeds
Yield
• very productive
Kara Gul
Originated in Turkmenistan
Color
• burgundy skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• medium hard seeds
• medium hard seeds
Kazake
Originated in Uzbekistan
Zone
• 7b
Color
• yellow, pink, and green skin with red arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• hard seeds
• hard seeds
Storage
• longer than most
Afflictions
• Resistant to splitting.
Kazake may awaken from dormancy sooner than some of the other cold hardy pomegranate varieties.
Lubimi
Originated in southern Russia.
Alias
• Favorite
Zone
• 7b
Mae
Developed in California
Zone
• 8b
Color
• red or burgundy skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
Medovyi Vahsha
Originated in Turkmenistan
Zone
• 8
Ripens
🍎
• early-mid?
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet and slightly bitter
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Molla Nepes
Originated in Turkmenistan
Zone
• 8
Ripens
🍎
• mid-late?
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Myagkosemyannyi Rosovyi
Originated in Turkmenistan.
Alias
• Soft Seeded Pink
Zone
• 8
Color
• pink and yellow skin, pink and yellow arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Myatadzhy
Zone
• 8
Color
• red or burgundy skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds with a nutty flavor
• soft seeds with a nutty flavor
Parfianka
Originated in Turkmenistan
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• mid-late (late)
Color
• red or burgundy skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• slightly astringent? sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Yield
• highly productive
Parfianka is highly recommended but only in a hot, dry climate with a very long grow season where it can properly develop its deep flavor.
Phoenicia
Developed in California
Fruit
• medium hard seeds?
Phoenicia may have more tartness than what some nursery descriptions imply.
Pink Satin
Alias
• Pink Ice, Sin Pepe
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• mid (mid-late)
Color
• red or pink skin, pink and yellow arils
Fruit
• sweet and fruity
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Red Silk
Zone
• 8b
Color
• red skin, red arils
Growth
• dwarf or semi-dwarf, 6-8ft in height
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Salavatski
Zone
• 7b
Color
• pink and orange skin, red arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• medium hard seeds
• medium hard seeds
Afflictions
• Resistant to splitting.
Salavatski and Kaj Acik Anor may be able to avoid severe damage from late frost better than most other varieties.
Sharp Velvet
Developed in Camarillo, California
Alias
• Purple Heart
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• late
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart to sweet
• medium seeds
• medium seeds
Afflictions
• Resistant to splitting?
Sirenevyi
Originated in Turkmenistan
Zone
• 8
Ripens
🍎
• late
Color
• red, pink, and/or orange skin, burgundy arils
Fruit
• sweet and complex
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Sogdiana
Color
• red skin, red arils
Fruit
• sweet to sweet-tart, complex, and slightly bitter and astringent
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Sumbar
Originated in Turkmenistan, from the Sumbar River Valley.
Zone
• 7b? (8)
Ripens
🍎
• early?
Color
• red skin
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Surh Anor
Originated in Afganistan
Zone
• 7b
Color
• pink and yellow skin, yellow and pink arils
Fruit
• sweet-tart
• hard seeds
• hard seeds
Yield
• very productive
Surh Anor is the most productive "hardy" pomegranate available in the US.
Sverkhranniy
Originated in Turkmenistan
Ripens
🍎
• very early ◦ early August in southern California
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Sweet
Zone
• 8b
Color
• pink skin, pink arils
Fruit
• sweet
The 'Sweet' pomegranate develops a sweet flavor before maturity.
Utah's Sweet
Ripens
🍎
• early?
Color
• • red, orange, and/or pink skin, pink and/or yellow arils
• • pink-orange flowers
• • pink-orange flowers
Fruit
• sweet
• soft seeds
• soft seeds
Wonderful
Selected in Porterville, CA (1896). Scionwood originated in Florida.
Zone
• 8b
Ripens
🍎
• mid
Color
• red skin, burgundy arils
Growth
• 10-12ft in height
Fruit
• sweet-tart, slightly astringent
• medium soft seeds
• up to 5" fruit
• medium soft seeds
• up to 5" fruit
Wonderful is the most commercially cultivated variety in the US.