Pineapple

Pineapple

The pineapple is a fruit resulting from a hardy perennial originating in South America. At the time of its discovery, it was already cultivated since hundreds of years by Indian tribes.

The pineapple is a herbaceous plant with the thick and thorny leaves. The leaves are laid out around a core from where fructification at the end of a pole appears.

Contrary to the majority of the other species of the family which are , the pineapple is a succulent terrestrial plant.

In summer, add manure to the water of watering of your foot of pineapple. In winter, let dry the substrate surfaces some before a new light watering.

To multiply pineapple, it is enough to cut the upper part with the leaves, to let it dry a few days and to plant it in a light substrate made up of sand and mould. Lay out the whole in a hot corner and roots will not be formed, he will not but remain you any more to install it in a pot close to a source of light. But generally there is no fructification.

Did you know?

• Pineapple does not contain seeds because the fruit is not resulting from a fecundation whereas Ananas contains some. This last in nature is pollinated by the hummingbirds.

• The fruit of the Pineapple is resulting from several flowers (between 60 and 200), the produced fruits corresponding to the scales around pineapple. The formation of the fruit ends in a crown of leaves which can be used as rejection.

• Thailand and Philippines are the first pineapple producers.

• The leafy party of the plant is also used like forages for the animals or like energy source.

• “Cayenne Lisse” is the most cultivated variety of Pineapple . Come then “” to Malaysia for preserve, “” to Africa and Australia for the fresh market, “” in the Antilles, “” and “” in Brazil.

• Pineapple is cultivated for its fibers used in the construction of hammocks and fishing nets.

• The island of the Meeting produces famous the small Victoria pineapple considered for her very scented savor.

• The father who wrote the history of the Antilles said pineapple which he was the king of the fruits, because God put a crown to him on the head.

• It is Christophe who brings back pineapple to Europe after his discovery to Guadeloupe.

Your comments

Comment of Pastoral:
To Christmas, we had bought a Victoria pineapple. I put it in water glass (water that I often change and tap water) here what that gives to the day of today, I put it outside in a varnished terracotta container.

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