Pineapple is grown in the ground. It is a perennial monocotyledonous evergreen herbaceous dwarf plant, 0.5-1 m tall.

Stem short. Leaves are numerous, rosally arranged, sword-shaped, 40-90 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, apically acuminate, entire or sharply toothed, green on the ventral surface, pinkish-green on the dorsal surface, often tawny on the margins and tips, and leaves borne at the top of the inflorescence become smaller and often reddish. Inflorescences arising from leaf clusters, pine-ball-like, 6-8 cm long, enlarged when fruiting; bracts green at base, reddish in upper half, triangular-ovate; sepals broadly ovate, fleshy, reddish at tip, ca. 1 cm long; petals long elliptic, pointed at tip, ca. 2 cm long, purplish-red in upper part, white in lower part. Polygamous fruit fleshy, more than 15 cm long. Flowering period summer to winter.

The stem is short and thick, brownish, with suckering buds coming out at the base. Roots are attached around the stem. Leaves are clustered from the upper part of the stem. Spikes arise from the clusters of leaves. Fruit fleshy, pine cone-like compound fruit, mostly cylindrical.

Pineapple winter growth temperature of about 15 ℃. Wide adaptability to the soil. Root aerobic shallow, with mycorrhiza *** birth, the stomata and velvet on the back of the leaves have a special structure for storing carbon dioxide, but also prevent water evaporation, so drought-resistant, but not cold. Generally propagated by sprouts, with the crown bud propagation of the plant is optimal, followed by sucker bud culture of seedlings.

Online there is a: home grown pineapple growing process six years full record

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