Strange Fruit
It has to be time for a fruit based still life surely - well o.k maybe a deconstructed version! Pomegranates really are a wonderfully strange fruit!
Of course that means I'll have to share some pomegranate facts with you too - so here goes:
Pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the Lythraceae family (subfamily Punicoideae) that grows between 16 and 33 feet tall. It has multiple spiny branches and is long lived with some specimens in France surviving for up to 200 years.
The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean. It was introduced to into Spanish America in the late 16th Century and into California by Spanish settlers in 1769.
The fruit is typically in season in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May, and in the Northern Hemisphere from September to February.
The name pomegranate derives from the Medieval Latin ponum, meaning "apple", and granatum, meaning "seeded". It also possibly stems from the old French word for fruit, pomme-grenade. The fruit was know in early English as the "apple of grenada" - this is folk etymology, confusing the Latin word granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Grenada, which is derived from an unrelated arabic word.
The modern French term for pomegranate, grenade, has given its name to the military grenade.
Probably more pomegranate facts than you will ever need, or indeed want!
Looking at this image again the part of the fruit on the right of the image looks remarkably like a Pac-Man. Maybe I should have titled this blip Pomegranate Pac-Man! :-)
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