Description
Want an unusual tropical plant? Growing pineapple plants indoors is easier than you may think and sure to grab attention.
The pineapple is a tropical plant with edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the Bromeliaceae family.
Plant Specifications
*above specification are indicative only. actual dimensions may vary by +-10%
| Common Name | pineapple sage |
| Maximum Reachable Height | 2.00 to 3.00 feet |
| Flower Colour | golden-yellow |
| Bloom Time | September to October |
| Difficulty Level | easy to grow |
Planting and care
Pineapple care
Pineapples are easily propagated from either the fruit itself or the mother plant.
| Sunlight | Full sun |
| Watering | Medium |
| Soil | well-drained |
| Temperature | 68F |
| Fertilizer | Apply any organic fertilizer |
Pineapple special feature
Flowers may be used as a garnish, or may be added to fruit cocktails or salads.
Pineapple uses
Medicinal Use:
- Leaves: used as anthelmintic, cholagogue; fresh juice taken to treat hiccough and constipation
- Fruit: used as digestive, diuretic, laxative, diaphoretic and antiscorbutic; used to treat gastric irritability, jaundice
- Green fruit: used as abortifacient, anthelmintic, emmenagogue and styptic
Culinary Use:
- pine-cone shaped fruit with a crown of stiff prickly leaves and sweet-tasting flesh