Pineapple facts

Beneath the piles of potatoes, tobacco leaves, bags of corn and cocoa Columbus also took from the New World the unusual oval plant crowned with leaves in the shape of a palm tree. The plant had spiky bark, yellow-green color, like the fish scales or snake skin. At that time the pineapple probably looked really funny to the Europeans. Pineapple was first recorded in South America, specifically in the area where Paraguay today is and it is still grown there, although new and real home of pineapple are Hawaii which have ..click to read more