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Interesting, I had always assumed pomegranates came from South America for some reason and were cultivated relatively recently, didn't realize they were from somewhere the Romans had access to
Comes from Iran! By Classical Antiquity it had spread to the Mediterranean; the Greek myth of Persephone's abduction involves her eating pomegranate seeds, even!
The fruit's name in Brazil is a bastardization of "fruit from Rome".
Pommegranates are the original "apples" Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge.