"Persephone", 1874 oil on canvas by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Proserpine_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
P. protopunica (far left) is overshadowed by continental African native sausage tree (Kigelia), Koko Crater Botanical Garden: Drew Avery, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3616599739/
Punica granatum orchard: Bhanji11, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anar%28Pomegranate%29.jpg
Middle Rhine, central Germany: Manfred Heyde, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lythrum_salicaria_Rhine.jpg
Louvre Museum, Excavated 1843-1844 by Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802-March 29, 1870): Marie-Lan Nguyen (Jastrow), Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transport_cedar_Dur_Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19890.jpg
In Greco-Roman world, Socotra was known as Dioscoridus Island: PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (caption in Pomegranate red [rgb 238, 50, 51] added by Derdriu) @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Periplus_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.jpg
topographic map of Socotra Archipelago: Oona Räisänen (Mysid), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Topographic_map_of_Socotra-en.svg
1882 portrait by Maull & Fox (Henry Maul [1832-1907], John Fox [1832-1907]): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Bayley_Balfour,_Maull_%26_Fox,_BNF_Gallica.jpg
Punica protopunica: lithograph by Walter Hood Fitch (Feb 28, 1817-Jan 14, 1892): Fig. 1 natural size, rest magnified; Isaac Bayley Balfour-Botany of Socotra (1888), Tab. XXV: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41401576
Red shading marks Socotra's granite core, where Haghier Mountains (1 of Socotran pomegranate's habitats) are located; Henry O. Forbes-Natural History (1903), p. xvii: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/26688649406
Dixsam, limestone plateau in the middle of Socotra where Socotra pomegranate trees grow: Email4mobile, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Socotra_-Dixam00.JPG
Diksam Plateau: Gerry and Bonni, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/gerr-bon/6407175757/
1898 photograph of Hadibu and Haghier Mountains, Socotra Pomegranate Tree's habitat: Henry O. Forbes-Natural History of Sokotra (1903), p. xxxii, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Hadibu_and_the_Haghier_Mountains_from_Tamarida_Bay.jpg?uselang=it
landscape between Pérouges and Meximieux, east central France: Ana Rey (Ana_Rey), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/anarey/7548843396/
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cmoneyspinner, Yes, "the other pomegranate tree" is very interesting, indeed. It has been overshadowed by its far more famous relative, but it still, fortunately, survives and has much information to share.
Very interesting. My first time hearing "the other pomegranate tree".