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About Pineapple on Wikipedia The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a
tropical plant and its fruit, native to Brazil, Bolivia, and
Paraguay. The plant is a bromeliad (family Bromeliaceae), a
short, herbaceous perennial with 30 or more trough-shaped and
pointed leaves 30–100 cm long, surrounding a thick stem. The
leaves of the Smooth Cayenne cultivar mostly lack spines except
at the leaf tip, but the Spanish and Queen cultivars have large
spines along the leaf margins. The fruit was named "pineapple"
because of its resemblance to a pine cone. The native Tupi word
for the fruit was anana, meaning "excellent fruit". This word
became the source of the word ananas, which is the word for
pineapple in many languages. Its natural pollinators are
Hummingbirds. The word "Pineapple," is derived from the word
pina, which was used to describe a pine cone by the Spanish.
Later, it was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands which are now
the leading producers of this fruit.