Types of Pomegranate Trees
There are fourteen types of pomegranate trees that can be bought and grown for your own personal use, but only a handful are popular enough you would be able to find them for yourself. Some hybrids have been made to make it easier to grow them in different climates but they still are mainly restricted to proper growing and blossoming in areas that are mostly hot and humid such as the lower quarter of the United States of America or the more southern most countries of Europe. In the States there are several major pomegranate tree species, most were created in the University of California Campus, though as more of an experiment.
Four main types exist in common sales, the Wonderful, which is the most popular pomegranate tree species the world over. It produces very large pomegranate fruits and each fruit has a blushed red skin and juicy red flesh. It grows about 18 feet tall total and if you really have a taste for pomegranate, this tree is considered the best bearer of fruit. Fruits generally have a long growing season on this tree and will not fully ripen until around late September, depending upon exactly where you live.
Another type of Pomegranate tree is the Greneda or Grenada that resembles the wonderful tree closely but the fruit it blossoms in much smaller and a much deeper red in color. A benefit of this tree, however, is that it ripens a full month earlier than the Wonderful variety. This makes it also a popular pick for those who wish to dine upon the pomegranate fruit and no matter which type you pick keep in mind that most Grocery stores are now charging over $2.00 per fruit, so a wise investment is to plant your very own tree to produce fruit for yourself or maybe to sell to others and make a profit.
The Sweet pomegranate tree is a fairly big pomegranate with distinctive light pink flesh. It is named for its fruit, which is very sweet and juicy. In fact it is the sweetest out of all the types of pomegranate trees, so it is very aptly named. Thia type of tree, it grows only to around 12 feet and has a beautiful shade of orange-red flowers in late spring, and these develop into fruit in the fall, around early September.
The last type we will discuss is the Angel Red; it is the newest type of pomegranate tree available and has grown in popularity recently. It has some very unique qualities in comparison with other pomegranate trees and many now consider it to be the very best type. First it typically bears fruit in early September or late August, earlier than most other pomegranate shrubs, but most amazing is it capacity for bearing many fruits compared to the other species. It's seeds are also usually soft and edible with a sweet flavor and the fruit it bears has a really pretty vibrant red color and it has the highest juice content per fruit so it is considered the best tree to make fruit juice out of.