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Pineapple Ananas








Ananas Pineapple

Austria :       The plant world
                     Plantae
Division :      SEED PLANT
                    Spermatophyta
In Division :  Gömfröväxter
                    Angiospermae
Class :         MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
                    Monocotyledonae
Order :        Poales
Family :       Bromeliad
                   Bromeliaceae
Genus :       Ananas genus
                   Pineapples
Species :    Pineapples
                   A. comosus

Scientific name
Ananas comosus


Pineapple is a rosette plant .

If you eat fresh pineapple, you after a while notice a tingling sensation on the palate and tongue. This is because pineapple contains an enzyme called bromine elin . Brake Elin is a protein enzyme consuming and therefore irritated skin and mucous membranes upon contact with the enzyme.

Four varieties are recognized:

    * dwarf pineapple (var. ananassoides (Baker) Coppens & Leal)
    * Screen pineapple (var. bracteatus (Lindl.) Coppens & Leal)
    * was. erectifolius (LB Smith) Coppens & Leal
    * was. parguazensis (Camargo & LBSmith) Coppens & Leal

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Pineapple (Ananas comosus ) is a plant of the family pineapple plants that originally belongs to Brazil and Bolivia , but that has been spread around the world. Christopher Columbus was the first European to taste the pineapple. He then helped to spread the pineapple. Pineapples do best in 25-30 degrees and it would be 1-1 ½ feet rain per year. It makes it really like working in the tropical Americas, the only place where it is found wild. A cultivated pineapple plant lives for about 3 years. When the plant is 2-3 years bears the fruit, then fade it and die. Pineapples have a frukttyp called fruit dressing as a combined entity formed by spreading a large amount of flowers around the stem.


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The most common uses of the pineapple fruit is in desserts and fruit salads. The fruit is common in fruit and vegetable counters, now not only in July but other times of the year.

In order to be eaten must be spiky shell and the woody party in the center of the fruit (pineapple stock) are removed. Therefore, canned, sliced pineapples often in the form of a relatively narrow ring with a big hole in the middle. The canned form is even less common pineapple chunks. Pineapple can also be purchased as candied fruit pieces. Pineapple fruit can weigh over 2 kg. The most common pollinator of the pineapple is the hummingbird .
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