“Ananas” is the name used for pineapple in most languages. It may look like a giant pine cone to English-speakers, but the fruit of this bromeliad is a syncarp to botanists. In Spanish it is ananá or piña. The species name comosus means “tufted” or “crowned”, in this case with a cluster of leaves that can be propagated into another pineapple. Pineapples are native to South America, and the biggest producers are Costa Rica, Brazil and the Philippines. Pineapples produce short spikes of tubular lavender flowers. When fertilized, the ovules merge together to produce the pineapple fruit. Nutritionally, pineapples are high in vitamin C, fiber and manganese.