Stats

Lifespan

Perennial

Size

Medium

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Tropical dry forest

Range

South America

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Runners

Defense

Spines

Status

Uncommon

About

The pineapple is a bromeliad that takes 18–24 months to produce a single fruit — which is actually a coalesced mass of up to 200 individual berries fused around a central stalk. Native to South America, it's now grown throughout the tropics and is one of the world's most recognisable tropical crops.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Bromeliaceae

Genus

Ananas

Species

Ananas comosus