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Punica protopunica, commonly known as the pomegranate tree or Socotran pomegranate, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. [3] It is endemic to the island of Socotra . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. [1] The tree, often thorny, attains a height of 2.5 to 4.5 meters.
The pomegranate is a shrub or small tree growing 5 to 10 m (16 to 33 ft) high, with multiple spiny branches. It is long-lived, with some specimens in France surviving for 200 years. [ 7 ] P. granatum leaves are opposite or subopposite, glossy, narrow oblong, entire, 3–7 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long and 2 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad.
Capparis arborea is a bush or small tree occurring in eastern Australia. Its habitat is rainforest, usually riverine, littoral or the drier rainforests. It is distributed from the Hunter River, New South Wales to Cape Melville in tropical Queensland. Common names include native pomegranate, wild lime, wild lemon and brush caper berry.
Honey bees, stingless bees, bumblebees, solitary bees (Lasioglossum spp.) fruit 2-modest tropical Pomegranate: Punica granatum: Honey bees, solitary bees, beetles: fruit 2-modest Pear: Pyrus communis: Honey bees, bumblebees, solitary bees, hover flies (Eristalis spp.) fruit 3-great 1 temperate Black currant, red currant: Ribes nigrum, Ribes rubrum
A European honey bee pollinates a peach flower while collecting nectar.. Pollination of fruit trees is required to produce seeds with surrounding fruit. It is the process of moving pollen from the anther to the stigma, either in the same flower or in another flower.
Lythraceae species are most often herbs, and less often shrubs or trees; the shrubs and trees often have flaky bark. [5] Traits shared by species within the Lythraceae that distinguish them from belonging to other plant families are the petals being crumpled in the bud and the many-layered outer integument of the seed.
Honeybees often collect nectar, pollen, or both from the following species of plants, which are called honey plants, for making honey. This is not an exhaustive list of the flowering plant species Honeybees will visit.
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre