Faye's Paintbrush - an old cultivar. Justin renamed ‘El Paso #1’ to ‘Faye’s Paintbrush’, ‘Faye’ is the name of his grandmother, and the colorful flowers reminded him of a painting.
When the flowers of this cultivar first show up, they look a lot like normal reddish pomegranate flowers, as the flowers develop, the more they loose that reddish color on the outside, as they open the inner part of the flower shows it's self more and more.
Orange/peachy ruffled flowers are showy and they highly resemble carnation flowers, with about 2-3 mm of light creamy tips, as if it had been slightly dipped in paint.
The fruit is brown and slightly blonde with green tones, a lot like the color of a Bosc pear, and has edible seeds, the fruit tastes like citrus and honey, it has a beige interior.
In El Paso, Texas it blooms twice, once all spring long and once the summer rains arrive in El Paso, Texas. The pomegranate bush has survived plenty of cold winters. Winter 2010 - 2011 the bush didn't go above freezing for a week and much of the time it was near zero degrees Fahrenheit. The bush was against a rock wall at roughly 3,800 feet elevation.
Justin Barnhouse (Dig) and his neighbor both have houses which were built in 1926, and both houses were a part of the same farm at one time.
When the cuttings were taken, the bush that the cuttings came from had 4 to 5 trunks, each trunk was 5 inches to 6 inches in diameter. From edge to edge the base was about 20 inches in diameter. Saturday, January 21st 2017 the mother bush in El Paso, it was hit by a 24 hour windstorm, with gusts up to 60 miles per hour, and survived it very well. This cultivar is a young bloomer, as a matter of fact out of the 16 cuttings of it that I had to root 'one cutting flowered'. Yet it still has not fruited for me yet.
Here are photos of this cultivar's male flowers 'on our bush'
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Here is a photo taken of a bi-sexual flower 'on the mother bush in El Paso, Texas'.
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