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Michel Boucher wrote:

> (PENMART01) wrote in
> :
>
>>>Thanks, Shel. My wife and I both tested it and neither one of us
>>>thinks it sounds metallic, but the long shelf life is reassuring.
>>
>>I've always called them Chinese Apples, usually appeared profusely
>>in NYC markets beginning just prior to Halloween... and "Chinese
>>Apples" is how they were labeled at the produce stands (there were
>>no supermarkets then)...
>
> We called them "pommes de Grenade" (Granada apples). And yes I
> remember when there were no supermarkets. I'm almost 60, so I have to
> go back some to the early fifties here. We did shop and an A&P when I
> was young but those things were rare and not that big anyway.

Latin name for them is Punica granatum. I have a couple as bonsai.
They're popular with bonsai folks because of the flowers and the
fruit. <http://www.bonsainl.nl/BPG/BS_A0081.HTM>

The fruits last a long time refrigerated, but they develop the most
flavor at room temperature. Downside is that they can go from picking
to full ripe within a couple weeks.

Pastorio