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Ananas sativus, Schult. f. Pineapple, which see for field culture Fig. 194. Plant producing a single shaft 2-4 ft. high, and when 12-20 mos. old bearing a head, or pineapple, on the top of which is a rosette of stiff Lvs.: Lvs. tropics. B.M. 1554 (as Bromelia Ananas). B.R. 1081 (as A. bracteata).—There is a common cult. form (var. variegatus or stratifolius), Fig. 195, with striped Lvs. Gn. 51, p. 57. A. Porleanus, Koch, is a form of A. sativus, with olive-green, sharp-spined Lvs. with a yellow central band. G.W. 5, p. 51. A. cochin-chinensis, Hort., is another form (intro. by Pitcher & Manda, 1891).
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Ananas (modified from aboriginal S. Amer. name). Written also Ananassa. Bromeliaceae. Stove herbs, allied to the billbergias, and demanding the same general treatment. As ornamental subjects, grown mostly for the rosette of rigid Lvs. and the strange, often colored head of fleshy fls., which are 6-cleft, with 6 stamens and 1 style. The ripe head is composed of the thickened rachis, in which the fleshy berry is imbedded, and the fleshy persistent bracts; in the pineapple, the fls. are abortive. Prop, by the leafy crown or topknot, by long and sword-shaped, stiff, more or less rough-edged. The same stalk does not bear a second time, but a new shoot may arise from the same root and bear fruit. Better results are usually secured by severing the sucker or crown, and growing a new plant. American strong suckers, or by small offsets from the base: these are treated as cuttings, being rooted in sand with bottom heat, or in the S. set directly in the field. Monogr. by Mez, DC., Monogr. Phaner. 9.
Ananas (modified from aboriginal S. Amer. name). Written also Ananassa. Bromeliaceae. Stove herbs, allied to the billbergias, and demanding the same general treatment. As ornamental subjects, grown mostly for the rosette of rigid Lvs. and the strange, often colored head of fleshy fls., which are 6-cleft, with 6 stamens and 1 style. The ripe head is composed of the thickened rachis, in which the fleshy berry is imbedded, and the fleshy persistent bracts; in the pineapple, the fls. are abortive. Prop, by the leafy crown or topknot, by long and sword-shaped, stiff, more or less rough-edged. The same stalk does not bear a second time, but a new shoot may arise from the same root and bear fruit. Better results are usually secured by severing the sucker or crown, and growing a new plant. American strong suckers, or by small offsets from the base: these are treated as cuttings, being rooted in sand with bottom heat, or in the S. set directly in the field. Monogr. by Mez, DC., Monogr. Phaner. 9.
A. bracteatus, Schult. f., is a showy species with red heads, all the bracts being elongated, spiny and prominent. Brazil. B.M. 5025. Regarded by Mez as a form of A. sativus. – A. macrodontes, Morr., like a bromeliad, has large toothed bracts. Brazil.- A. Mordilonus, Hort., a form of A. sativus probably, has variegated spineless lvs.
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