What Type Of Fruit is a Pineapple?

Question

I am studying botany and the book tells you SOME of the fruits but it does not mention pineapples and I was eating some and was wondering what type they are. please tell and don't say look it up because I DID OKAY!

please and thank you!

Answer 1

A multiple fruit of berries--the total fruit is composed of berries from different flowers on a spike that fused together as they matured.

http://www.uga.edu/fruit/pinapple.html

Answer 2

Bromeliad fruit

Answer 3

It is technically a complex fruit called a "multiple fruit".  This means that each little squarish thing with a spine developed from an individual flower that was part of a flower cluster.  These fuse together to form the multiple fruit.  The part you eat are fused ovaries.