Information about Ananas
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Pineapple plantation
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Ananas bracteatus var. striatus
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Fruit of Ananas bracteatus var. tricolor
The genus Ananas belongs to the Bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae). It is best known for the species Ananas comosus, better known as the pineapple.
This genus originated in South America and was brought to the Caribbean Islands by the Carib Indians. In 1493, Christopher Columbus first saw plants of this genus in Guadeloupe. It was brought to Europe, and from there was distributed to the Pacific Islands by the Spanish and the English. Commercial pineapple plantations were established in Hawaii, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Florida and Cuba. The pineapple has become one of the world's most popular fruits.
The tough leaves grow in large rosettes, arising basally from a crown. These leaves are long and lanceolate with a serrate or thorny margin. The flowers, arising from the heart of the rosette, each have their own sepals. They grow into a compact head on a short, robust stalk. The sepals become fleshy and juicy and develop into the well-known complex form of the pseudocarp fruit, crowned by a rosette of leaves.
Ananas species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Batrachedra comosae, which feeds exclusively on A. comosus.
The word Ananas is derived from the Guarani name for the pineapple, via Portuguese.
Chemistry
Pineapples contain both bromelain and papain to which it owes its meat tenderizing properties.Ethnomedical Use
The fruit and roots are used as anti-inflammatory, proteolytic agent, and a root decoction for diarrhea.Species and varieties
- Ananas ananassoides var. typicus
- Ananas arvensis : (Brazil)
- Ananas bracteatus : (Brazil)
- Ananas bracteatus var. albus
- Ananas bracteatus var. hondurensis
- Ananas bracteatus var. paraguariensis
- Ananas bracteatus var. rudis
- Ananas bracteatus var. striatus (South America)
- Ananas bracteatus var. tricolor
- Ananas bracteatus var. typicus
- Ananas comosus - pineapple (Brazil)
- Ananas erectifolius
- Ananas genesio-linesii (Brazil)
- Ananas guaraniticus (Argentina, Paraguay)
- Ananas macrodontes (Brazil)
- Ananas microcephalus (tropical America)
- Ananas microcephalus var. major (South America)
- Ananas microcephalus var. minor (South America)
- Ananas microcephalus var. missionensis (Argentina)
- Ananas microcephalus var. mondayanus (South America)
- Ananas microstachys var. typicus
- Ananas mordilona
- Ananas pancheanus (Colombia)
- Ananas parguazensis (South America)
- Ananas pyramidalis
- Ananas sativus (tropical America)
- Ananas sativus var. hispanorum
- Ananas sativus var. lucidus
- Ananas sativus var. muricatus
- Ananas sativus var. sagenarius
- Ananas sativus f. typicus
- Ananas sativus var. variegatus
- Ananas strictus (Paraguay)
- Ananas viridis
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]
Divisions
Green algae
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Haeckel, 1866[1]
Divisions
Green algae
- Chlorophyta
- Charophyta
- Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)
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Magnoliophyta
Classes
Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots
The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Classes
Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots
The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Liliopsida is a botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family). It is considered synonymous (or nearly synonymous) with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli (in 1760): see author citation (botany).
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Poales
Small
families
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Poales is order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.
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Small
families
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Poales is order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.
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Bromeliaceae
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Bromelioideae
Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This family is the most diverse, represented by the greatest number of genera with 78, but the least number of species with approximately 780.
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Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This family is the most diverse, represented by the greatest number of genera with 78, but the least number of species with approximately 780.
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Philip Miller (1691 - December 18, 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent.
Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1721 until shortly before his death.
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Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1721 until shortly before his death.
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Bromeliaceae
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A. comosus
Binomial name
Ananas comosus
(L.) Merr.
Synonyms
Ananas sativus The pineapple (Ananas comosus
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Binomial name
Ananas comosus
(L.) Merr.
Synonyms
Ananas sativus The pineapple (Ananas comosus
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Capital Basse-Terre
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leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast (chlorenchyma tissue, a type of parenchyma) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate
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accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, epigynous fruit or pseudocarp is a fruit where the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.
An example is the apple. Other examples include cashew and ficus.
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larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians).
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Clipper Parthenos sylvia]]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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The Clipper Parthenos sylvia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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Batrachedridae
Heinemann & Wocke, 1876
Genus: Batrachedra
Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
Species
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Batrachedridae is a small family of moths.
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Heinemann & Wocke, 1876
Genus: Batrachedra
Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
Species
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Batrachedridae is a small family of moths.
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