#pineapple

• Pineapple — An exotic herbaceous plant from the Bromeliaceae family, with long, rigid, and spiky leaves, native to tropical South America; the fruit of this plant, cylindrical or ovoid in shape, covered with a scaly, tough rind and topped with a crown of green leaves. Its flesh is yellow, highly juicy, sweet-tart, and aromatic, widely consumed fresh, canned, or as juice, and recognized for its high content of vitamin C and bromelain.
• Ananas comosus — The official binominal scientific name of the cultivated pineapple, a tropical perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Bromeliaceae family. The species is characterized by a dense rosette of rigid, sword-shaped leaves and a compact central inflorescence which, after fertilization or through parthenocarpic development, structurally fuses together with the fleshy axis and bracts to form a single infructescence (composite fruit) of immense global commercial and dietary importance.