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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.
A friend pointed out the pineapples are bromeliads. This “flower” demonstrates it.
No scare quotes necessary: angiosperm confirmed.
Delicious fractals
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}