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A pineapple? It’s close to blooming?
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3787152/pineapple-blooming
Ooh, thank you! That definitely looks the part.
Pineapple is a funny word.
I just researched its etymology the other day. Colonizers encountering these thought they resembled pinecones, and apple was a generic word for fruit. Many countries wisely took the native word “anana” (Frenchies, etc) but Englishers had to make it their own. Hence the head empty Linnaean naming.
Hah cool! Thanks for sharing!
Delicious fractals
A friend pointed out the pineapples are bromeliads. This “flower” demonstrates it.
No scare quotes necessary: angiosperm confirmed.
Keep away from that natural explosion, please!
![The symmetry of a pineapple in bloom [OC]](https://piefed.muxika.org/static/media/posts/ck/OW/ckOWNgG3f2tCpez.jpg){kind=link}