Punica granatum ‘Eight Ball’ Fred Heutte Commonly known as the needle-leaf

Commonly known as the needle-leaf totara

plainly: a single-form Camellia japonica with short

The needle foliage and low

the obedient plant

wet spot that stays soggy

Punica granatum ‘Eight Ball’ Fred Heutte Commonly known as the needle-leafThere are pomegranates grown for fruit, and pomegranates grown for flowers, and then there is 'Eight Ball', grown for sheer astonishment. Where the species bears globes the color of garnets, Punica granatum 'Eight Ball' ripens fruit so dark, round, and dusky that the pomegranates look dipped in coal, closer to the ball the cultivar is named for than to anything in the produce aisle. The color runs bone deep: the fruit is so loaded with anthocyanin