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The female tree produces flowers with round fruits that are also bract-surrounded. The individual fruit is a drupe, and these merge to varying degrees forming multiple fruit, a globule structure, 10–20 cm (4–8 in) in diameter and have many prism-like sections, resembling the fruit of the pineapple. Typically, the fruit changes from green to ...
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.
Pandanus spiralis is a small tree growing up to 10 m tall with a slender trunk, and often with a clumping habit. Prop roots may be present, but are more often absent. The leaves are 1–2 m long and 4–7 cm wide, and they may or may not have sharp spines along the leaf margins and midrib.
Jubaea is a genus of palms with one species, Jubaea chilensis, commonly known in English as the Chilean wine palm or Chile cocopalm, and palma chilena [3] in Spanish. It is native to southwestern South America and is endemic to a small area of central Chile between 32°S and 35°S in southern Coquimbo , Valparaíso , Santiago , O'Higgins , and ...
Beaucarnea recurvata, the elephant's foot [4] or ponytail palm, [5] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. The species was native to numerous states of eastern Mexico but is now confined to the state of Veracruz. [1] [6] Despite its common name, it is not closely related to the true palms .
Copernicia macroglossa obtained its scientific name from the famous astronomer, Copernicus who proposed the sun was the center of the universe centuries ago. The plant itself has become the center of attention for many gardeners around the globe for its magnificent "petticoat" and its majestic structure.
Acrocomia crispa, the Cuban belly palm or corojo, a palm species which is endemic to Cuba. Formerly placed in its own genus, Gastrococos, recent work found that that genus was nested within Acrocomia. [2] It is a tall, spiny palm with a trunk that is slender at the base, but swollen in the middle, giving it the name "Cuban belly palm" in ...