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Ananas comosus

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A periennial of the BROMELIACEAE family with short stem and usually spiny-edged leaves, 30–100 cm long and arranged in a rosette. Offshoots with small rosettes of leaves arise in the axils of the large leaves and serve to propagate the plant vegetatively. After a year or 2 the stem length- ens to form a spike-like inflorescence, at the end of which is a thickened axis. It consists of numerous long-pointed bracts with three-petalled flowers in their axils. The flowers become fruits without being pollinated, and the inferior ovaries develope into berries, which together with axis of the inflorescence and the bracts, form a compound fruit or syncarp. Only the roughly diamond-shaped and flattened sides of the individual fruits can be seen, making up the surface of the aggregate fruit.

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