The pineapple

The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with palatable numerous organic product comprising of combine berries, additionally called pineapples and the most monetarily critical plant in the Bromeliaceae family.

Pineapples might be developed from a crown cutting of the natural product, conceivably blooming in 20–24 months and fruiting in the accompanying six months. Pineapples don't mature fundamentally after collect.

Pineapples can be expended crisp, cooked, squeezed, or safeguarded. They are found in a wide exhibit of cooking styles. Notwithstanding utilization, the pineapple leaves are utilized to deliver the material fiber piña in the Philippines, ordinarily utilized as the material for the men's barong Tagalog and ladies' baro't saya formal wear in the nation. The fiber is additionally utilized as a part for backdrop and different decorations.

Historical background

"Pineapple" in English was initially recorded to portray the regenerative organs of conifer trees (now named pine cones). At the point when European pioneers found this tropical natural product in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" (initially referenced in 1664, for likeness to the pine cone).

In the logical binomial Ananas comosus, ananas, the first name of the natural product, originates from the Tupi word nanas, signifying "superb organic product", as recorded by André Thevet in 1555, and comosus, "tufted", alludes to the stem of the organic product. Different individuals from the Ananas variety are regularly called pine, too, in different dialects. In Spanish, pineapples are called piña ("pine cone"), or ananá (ananás) (for instance, the piña colada drink).

The pineapple is a herbaceous perpetual, which develops to 1.0 to 1.5 m (3.3 to 4.9 ft) tall, albeit now and again it can be taller. In appearance, the plant has a short, stocky stem with intense, waxy takes off. While making its natural product, it typically delivers up to 200 blossoms, albeit some expansive fruited cultivars can surpass this. When it blossoms, the individual products of the blooms combine to make what is regularly alluded to as a pineapple. After the principal organic product is created, side shoots (called "suckers" by business cultivators) are delivered in the leaf axils of the fundamental stem. These might be evacuated for proliferation, or left to create extra natural products on the first plant. Commercially, suckers that show up around the base are developed. It has at least 30 long, tight, meaty, trough-molded leaves with sharp spines along the edges that are 30 to 100 cm (1.0 to 3.3 ft) long, encompassing a thick stem. In the primary year of development, the hub stretches and thickens, bearing various leaves in close spirals. Following 12 to 20 months, the stem develops into a spike-like inflorescence up to 15 cm (6 in) long with more than 100 spirally orchestrated, trimerous blooms, each subtended by a bract. Blossom hues differ, contingent upon assortment, from lavender, through light purple to red.The ovaries form into berries, which combine into an extensive, conservative, numerous frill organic product. The product of a pineapple is orchestrated in two interlocking helices, eight in one heading, 13 in the other, each being a Fibonacci number.

The pineapple does CAM photosynthesis, altering carbon dioxide around evening time and putting away it as the corrosive malate, then discharging it amid the day helping photosynthesis.