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By Katherine Preston and Jeanne Osnas<\/a><\/h1>\n

(The Botanist in the Kitchen<\/a>)<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>This deep dive into pineapple anatomy is our contribution this year to the very fun Advent Botany<\/a> essay collection, a celebration of plants that are at least somewhat tangentially connected to the winter holidays. In previous years we\u2019ve contributed essays on figs<\/a>, peppermint<\/a>, and sugar<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

December is the time to bring out the fancy Christmas china, polish the silver pitchers, and . . .\u00a0bedeck your best bromeliads<\/a>. In 2017, as in 1700, no proper hostess can be without\u00a0a pineapple<\/a>\u00a0for her centerpiece<\/a>. Here we unpack the botany of pineapple, which is as complicated and fabulous as its cultural history. A proper hostess, after all, should also be able to dazzle her guests with tales of tropical fruit morphology.<\/p>\n\n

<\/p>\n

The main blog for today is hosted at the Botanist in the Kitchen Blog and is a wonderful tour through the botany of a pineapple, it’s infructescence and how to make a pineapple based table decoration (Did the authors watch Blue Peter<\/a> in their youth? Both authors assure me Blue Peter did not cross the Atlantic – what a shame!<\/em>). For the full and strange story of #AdventBotany2017 pineapple read the BitK Blog Here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Editor’s note<\/h2>\n

We’ve been growing pineapples in the glasshouses at Reading University ever since the refit of our tropical glasshouse in 2011\/12<\/a>. We generally have six or seven plants growing and there is a pineapple in flower or fruit from late spring until mid winter.\u00a0 The plants tend to slow down in the short days of December and January.\u00a0 They need rich soil to grow well and we top dress the greenhouse soil each year with a layer of horse manure which rots down and feeds the plants.<\/p>\n

For a personal view on the diverse bromeliad family read the blog by Eduardo Fernandez here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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