It may be a foolish question for some people, but many would ask where a pineapple fruit comes from? Well, one thing for sure, you would not need a ladder to be able to pick the pineapple fruit from its plant. You should not be ashamed that you do not know that a pineapple fruit does not come from a tree. It is normal to think that way as many fruits if not most, come from trees.
Pineapple is one of the few exceptions as they come from plants that grow so close to the ground. Another fact is that a pineapple plant can only bear one fruit at one time. The fruit would be right in the middle of the plant. Can we call it pineapple bush then? Well, it is more likely to be called bush than tree.
If you are one of those people who do not know about pineapple, you may also be those who think that pineapples come from Hawaii. Just because pineapples are so identical with those beaches and tropical areas, but it does not mean that the fruit comes from Hawaii. The fruit actually comes mostly from South America. However, the fruits can also be found in Africa. This fruit is one of the fruit from the bromeliad family and it is the celebrity of the family. It is so popular that it has been used for a diet program for those celebrities in Holywood. It reached Spain in 1493 when Christopher Columbus found the place.
The pineapple may trigger people to think that it has some kind of relation to the pine trees or the apple fruits as its name is the combination between the two. It got the name not because it is of the same family of the pine trees but rather because it was affected by the Spanish name of the fruit, pina. Or maybe it is called pine not because of the tree but rather because of the fact that the shape reminded many people of pine cones.
But of course you need to compare the green pineapple to the green pine cones and not the dried and brown ones. As for the origin of the apple and pineapple, they do not share anything in common. The only thing that this fruit is called pineapple is because the sweet taste of the pineapple reminds people of the sweet taste of an apple.
