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Pineapple

Pineapple

The pineapple, a native of tropical America and now widely cultivated in all tropical regions of the world.

Bromeliaceae is a land, while many plants in this family are epiphytes (hence the error of the designer of “Tarzan of the Apes King” who grew the pineapple in the trees).

The leaves are large, jagged, spiny, blue-green rather dark inflorescence leads to a particular fruit, a coenocarpe.
There is an association of fruit with the same inflorescence and floral stem spiny bracts that become very fleshy.

The pineapple, dark green when not ripe, turns yellow-orange or greenish-brown and very fragrant when ripe.
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