Pineapple


The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the Bromeliaceae family.
Kingdom -plantar
(unranked)-Angiosperms
(unranked)-Monocots
(unranked)-Commelinids
Order- poales
Family- Bromelioideae
Genus- Ananas
Species- A.comosus
 Pineapples can be consumedfresh,cooked, juiced, or preserved. They are found in a wide array of cuisines. In addition to consumption, the pineapple leaves are used to produce the textile fiber pina in the Philippines, commonly used as the material for the men's barong Tagalog and women's barot says  formal wear in the country. The fiber is also used as a component for wallpapers and other furnishings.
 Etymology
The word "pineapple" in English was first recorded to describe the reproductive organs of canifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European explorers encountered this tropical fruit in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" (first reference in 1664, for resemblance to pine cone). In the scientific binomial Ananas comosus, ananas, the original name of the fruit, comes from the Tupi word Nana's meaning "excellent fruit" as recorded by Andre Thevet in 1555, and comosus, "tufted", refers to the system of the fruit.Other members of the Ananas genus are often called pine, as well, in other languages.In Spanish pineapples are called pine (pine cone), or anana (anana's) (for example the pins calada drink).
               Botany
The pineapple is a herbaceous perennial, which grows to 1.0 to 1.5m (3.3 to 4.9 ft) tall, although sometimes it can be taller in appearance, the plant has a short, stocky stem with tough, waxy leaves. When creating it's fruits, it usually produces up to 200 flowers, although some large fruited cultivars can exceed this. Once it flowers, the individual fruit of the flowers join together to create what is commonly referred to as pineapple. After the first fruit is produced, side shoots (called 'suckers' by commercial growers) are produced in the leaf axils of the main stem. These may be removed for propagation, or left to produce additional fruits on the original plant. Commercially suckers that appear around the base are cultivated.It has 30 more long, narrow, fleshy, troughs-shaped  leaves with sharp spines along the margins that are 30 to 100cm (1.0 to 3.3ft) long, surrounding a thick stem.



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