Friday, March 12, 2010

Is a Pomegranate related to corn?

I was eating a pomegranate the other day and notice some similarities.

Is a Pomegranate related to corn?
There may be similarities, but the answer is definitely no. Corn (the plant -- called maize in the rest of the world) a type of grass. A grass that grows quite big for grass. The part we eat is the "seed-head" of the grass. Originally cultivated in Central America.


Pomegranites are the fruit pods off a specific type of small bushy tree. Probably originally grown in the Middle East or Africa.
Reply:dere is a slight similarities but d are 4rm d same family
Reply:they are as different as chalk and cheese ... pomegranates are produced by woody shrubs and are dicots; corn is produced by a tall, tropical grass and so are monocots.





The niblet-like things in the pomegranate are INSIDE a fruit so they are seeds ... seeds that have a fleshy envelope (called an aril) around them. In corn, the niblets are on the outside of the cob ... they are actually one-seeded fruits (like all grains we get from grasses)
Reply:Definitely not.Maize i.e. corn is a monocot,while pomegranate's a dicot.Only relation I can think of is that they both belong to same division-spermatophyta and sub-div -angiospremae.



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