 Salsa café, Malé, Maldives
The pineapple (Ananas Comosus) is a tropical plant and fruit (berry), probably native to Brazil or Paraguay. It is a tall (1-1.5 m) herbaceous perennial plant 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 tip, but the Spanish and Queen cultivars have large spines along the leaf margins. Pineapples are the only bromeliad fruit in widespread cultivation. The name pineapple in English (or pina in Spanish) comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone.
The word “pineapple”, first recorded in 1398, was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit, they called them “pineapples” (term first recorded in that sense in 1664) because it resembled what we known as pine cones. The term “pine cones” was first recorded in 1695 to replace the original meaning of “pineapple”. In the binomial “ananas comosus”, ananas comes the original (Peruvian) Tupi word for pineapple nanas, as recorded by Andre’ Thevenet in 1555 and comosus means “tufted” and refers to the stem of the fruit.
source: A sheet on the table of Salsa café
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