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PINEAPPLE Fruit Facts
PINEAPPLE Fruit Facts PINEAPPLE Ananas comosus Bromeliaceae Common Names: Pineapple, Ananas, Nanas, Pina. Related Species: Pina de Playon (Ananas bracteatus). Distant affinity: Pingwing (Aechmea magdalenae), Pinguin (Bromelia pinguin), Pinuela (Karatas plumier). Origin: The pineapple is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay where wild relatives occur. It was spread by the Indians up through ...
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Angiosperm Families - Bromeliaceae Juss.
... , Platyaechmea, Podaechmea, Portea, Pseudaechmea, Pseudananas, Puya, Quesnelia, Ronnbergia, Steyerbromelia, Streptocalyx, Tillandsia, Vriesia, Wittrockia. Economic uses, etc. In addition to pineapple (Ananas comosus), the family provides ‘vegetable hair’ used for upholstery (Tillandsia), cordage and fabric fibres (Neoglaziovia, Aechmea), and many horticultural ornamentals. Illustrations. • ...
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Bromeliads
... a family native to the American Tropics. Two widely known members of this family are pineapple (Ananas comosus) and Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides). The majority of bromeliads grown as interior plants are epiphytes. ... pink striped leaves that form rosettes 2 feet or more across. There is a smaller species, Ananas nanus, that is commonly grown as an interior plant. It has arching, 12 to 15-inch ...
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Handbook 4
... what a ‘sweet agave’ is? For some Mixe speakers, it is the local name for pineapple (Ananas comosus L., Bromeliaceae), a fleshy sweet fruit that almost everyone knows. Of South American origin, ... Mixe consider the pineapple a part of the native Agave generic tsaats, apparently because of the similar habit of these distantly related plants. The general tendency to expand existing plant generics to ...
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Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Coffee & Morinda
... once attached. The remnants of the bracts and floral parts produce the prickles on the knobby stem surface. Three examples of multiple fruits: A. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus); B. Pineapple (Ananas comosus); and C. Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). All three fruits are refered to as "multiple fruits" because they are derived from the coalescence of ovaries from many individual flowers plus ...
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Jackfruit, Breadfruit, Osage Orange, Mulberry, Soursop, Sugar Apple, Cherimoya
... and mulberry, both are multiple fruits composed of numerous ripened ovaries derived from numerous separate flowers. Three examples of multiple fruits: A. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus); B. Pineapple (Ananas comosus); and C. Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). All three fruits are refered to as "multiple fruits" because they are derived from the coalescence of ovaries from many individual ...
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Diseases of Pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.)
... (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) Title Page Table of Contents Search Common Names of Plant Diseases Diseases of Pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) K. G. Rohrbach and W. J. Apt, primary collators (last update 5/12/93) BACTERIAL DISEASE Bacterial heart rot Erwinia chrysanthemi Burkholder et al. FUNGAL DISEASES Anthracnose Colletotrichum ananas Garud Butt rot Chalara ...
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Bromeliads
... a family native to the American Tropics. Two widely known members of this family are pineapple (Ananas comosus) and Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides). The majority of bromeliads grown as interior plants are epiphytes. ... pink striped leaves that form rosettes 2 feet or more across. There is a smaller species, Ananas nanus, that is commonly grown as an interior plant. It has arching, 12 to 15-inch ...
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Chicago Botanic Garden - 26 Gardens - Plant Information Q&A
... to top N back to top O Orchids, Illinois (Cyprepedium spp.) Ornamental Edibles Ornamental Grasses back to top P Peppers (Capsicum annuum) Peony (Paeonia sp.) Perennials, Late Perennials, Winter Interest Pineapple (Ananas comosus) Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) back to top Q back to top R Raspberries (Rubus idaeus) Rose (Rosa sp.) Rose, Knock Out (Rosa 'Radrazz') Rose, Miniature Rose Varieties (Rosa spp ...
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New Orchid Display Greenhouse - Devonian Botanic Garden
... New | Special Services | The Green Zone | Education Programs | Research | Collections | AFHE Links | BROMELIAD GREENHOUSE In the small lean-to greenhouse are bromeliads, which are attractive and unusual plants. Did you know that the tasty pineapple (Ananas comosus syn. A. sativus) is a bromeliad? It is the only one grown for its fruit. Yet the stems yield a potent ...
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