Types of Pomegranate Trees For 40 years, Soviet botanist Gregory Levin led the creation of the largest collection of pomegranates in the world, with 1,117 different types.

Pollinate your pomegranate tree by hand to enhance fruit production. Take a small artist’s paintbrush and dab it on the yellow pollen grains that appear soon after pomegranate flowers open.

This climate is a far cry from the pomegranate’s natural habitat, where summer temperatures frequently exceed 100 degrees. But pomegranates grow much better in a coastal climate that is the ...