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Pineapple
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Clarke, J. Harold Clarke Nursery, Long Beach, Washington.
Last reviewed:May 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.518100
A low-growing perennial plant (genus Ananas) and its edible fruit, indigenous to the Americas. Pineapple is a succulent tropical plant cultivated for its fruit, which also goes by the name pineapple (see illustration). The cultivated varieties (cultivars) of pineapple belong to the species Ananas comosus (alternatively Ananas sativus) of the plant order Poales. In some older classification systems, the pineapple plant is assigned to the order Bromeliales. See also: Bromeliales; Fruit; Horticultural crops; Poales
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