3D Pineapple Box for Hawaiian Party

3D Pineapple Box For Hawaiian Party

Ananas comosus, pineapple or pineapple or pineapple, is a perennial plant of the family of the bromeliads, native to South America. This species of small size and with hard and lanceolate up to 1 meter long leaves, bears fruit once every three years producing a unique fragrant and sweet fruit, much appreciated in gastronomy.

Although most bromeliads are epiphytes, A. comosus is a seemingly stemless, with a basal rosette, closely intertwined with margins of thorns gifted short tips rigid leaves, sessile, lanceolate, 30 to lively, terrestrial plant 100 cm long; They are slightly concave, to lead the rainwater into the rosette. The stem, reddish, becomes visible around 2 years, growing longitudinally to between 1 and 1.5 m. The leaf axils suckers small growers cut for playback, but if left can produce more fruits appear. Sprout stem pin-shaped inflorescences, with the stem thickened, consisting of several dozen trímeras violet flowers, which appear at the end of an escape in the axils of the bracts. The flowers are hermaphrodite, sessile, with inconspicuous bracts, the only asymmetric and free external tepals, superior ovary. The flowering period extends for one month or more; It is self-sterile plant, a trait selected by breeders to encourage vegetative reproduction. Pollination is responsible, in their natural environment, of hummingbirds.

The fruit is a small berry, which merges with the adjacent early in a sincarpio or infrutescencia, large and ovoid. The heart of sincarpo, more fibrous, is formed from the axial stem thickened, and the walls of the ovary, the base of the bracts and sepals are transformed into a barely fibrous, sweet and sour, very fragrant yellow flesh, not keeps track of the fruits that composed it. The flower itself is transformed into an octagonal gusset hard shell, formed by the merger of the apex of the bract and three sepals, which form the hard and thorny fruit waxen skin. Flower cavity hardens its walls; according to the cultivar as an empty cell it appears next to the skin, which remains hard and filiform stamens are preserved, or to slots is reduced. Further inland, the cells of the ovary, which contain the seed in the rare case of fertilization, also narrowed considerably. The latter are bimilimétrico, rumpled size, shape amigdaloide and more or less dark brown.

Its aroma is due to ethyl acetate.