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Pinckneyville is a historic frontier settlement site located near Union, Union County, South Carolina.Pinckneyville was established on February 19, 1791, by the General Assembly of South Carolina Act #1491 along with the Washington district, [2] and is one of the earliest settlements in the South Carolina backcountry.
The pineapple [2] [3] (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. [ 4 ] The pineapple is indigenous to South America , where it has been cultivated for many centuries.
Stephen Elliott (November 11, 1771 – March 28, 1830) was an American legislator, banker, educator, and botanist who is today remembered for having written one of the most important works in American botany, A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia. [1]
The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 108 (4): 318–320. JSTOR 27570920. Whitman, T. Stephen (2009). "Reviewed work: Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, S. Max Edelson". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 93 (1): 107–109. JSTOR 40585122. Young, Jeffrey Robert (2008). "Reviewed work: Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South ...
Only one bromeliad, the pineapple (Ananas comosus), is a commercially important food crop. Bromelain, a common ingredient in meat tenderizer, is extracted from pineapple stems. Many other bromeliads are popular ornamental plants, grown as both garden and houseplants. Bromeliads are important food plants for many peoples.
Eucomis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to southern Africa. [2] Most species of this genus are commonly referred to as pineapple flowers or pineapple lilies.
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Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a species in the bromeliad family native to tropical America, thought to have long been cultivated by the indigenous Tupi and Guaraní people [1] in the area of what is now known as Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela, with the plant cultivated and distributed from South America to Central America and the Caribbean islands long before the arrival of Europeans.