Pictures of pineapple trees:

Short stems. Leaves numerous, rosally arranged, sword-shaped, 40-90 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, apically acuminate, entire or sharply toothed, ventral surface green, abaxial surface pinkish-green, margins and tips often tawny, leaves borne at the top of the inflorescence becoming smaller and often reddish.

Polygamous fruit ellipsoid to globose, or irregularly shaped, 30-100 cm long, 25-50 cm in diameter, light yellow when young, yellow-brown at maturity, with hard hexagonal verrucose bumps and coarse hairs on the surface; drupe long ellipsoid, about 3 cm long, 1.5-2 cm in diameter. Flowering period February-March.

The fruit is not borne on the branches at the top of the tree, but on those small branches and leaves on the tree. Sometimes two or three branches are borne together, oblong like a small mango when small, and can be as large as a bucket when ripe, with bulging soft spines around the circumference. The seed capsule is like a pomegranate with a hundred or so grains in a ball. The flavor is sweet and rich, the meat can be eaten, and the kernel of each seed capsule is like a chestnut, which can also be eaten.

Extended information

Pineapple has its own special growth habit. The vast majority of pineapples have rosette-like leaf clusters. The base of the leaf tuft forms a leaf cylinder that holds water.

This kind of pineapple growth and development of water, not stored in the leaf flesh, but stored in the cluster of leaf clusters in the center of the growth point of the natural formation of the groove, the growing season in addition to the need for frequent watering to keep the soil moist, but also must be often to the leaf tube watering, so that the leaf tube is stored in sufficient water, so as to make it thrive, it's a special habit of the pineapple.

The vast majority of ornamental pineapple another special habit is only once in a lifetime to bloom, after the flowering of the mother plant and then live for a period of time that is dead, this time in the mother plant at the base of the stem or root sprouted one to several tillers (niè) buds, these tillers are propagation of new plants good material.

Pineapple is native to the tropical high temperature and arid regions of South America, love warmth, in the annual average of 24-27 (the most suitable for the growth of 15-40 ℃ range can grow, 15 ℃ below the growth of slow, 10 ℃ below the basic stop growing, 5 ℃ is the critical temperature of the cold damage.