Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:21:18 -0500 (EST) From: PTemple001@aol.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg814$foo@default> Subject: Pine Apples (in a CP conference?)
Perry
(No folks, they're not carnivorous but we occassionally digress so here
goes, briefly).
>Ananas (sp?)
A. ananassoides
6 inch fruit seedy but just edible if you spit a lot!
A. bracteatus
Orange red typicaal pineapple fruit, very edible but quite seedy and
not as big as
commercial pineaples.
A. bracteatus var. striatus
Larger and more colourful than A. comosus var variagatus and edible
A. comosus
The pineapple of commerce - the one everyone knows.
Lots of named varieties exist. Earliest records include Pine Apple
(two words)
and Queen Pine as names. "Discovered" 1493 by Columbus (unless you
prefer
the non-European view - I do - that it was discovered by the indigenous
populations who showed Columbus where it was and how nice it is).
A. comosus var. variagatus
Smaller but edible fruit almost smothered by leaves on top, very pretty
leaves
too.
A. erectifolius
Small, attractive, green with red markings, but inedible (i.e not
worth eating
even if you do spit a lot!). Similar size to A. nanas
A. fritzmuelleri
No info on the fruit but all Ananas species grow a "pineapple" fruit of
some sort.
A. lucidus
No info on the fruit but all Ananas species grow a "pineapple" fruit of
some sort.
A. nanus
Dwarf, most closely related to A. ananassoides but growing a massive 2
inch
fruit! Very attractive but hardly worth considering as edible (but it
is, just).
A. parguazensis
No info on the fruit but all Ananas species grow a "pineapple" fruit of
some sort.
Sorry, can't resist the occassional excursion into Bromeliaceae.
Regards
Paul
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