As the photo they attached shows, Trader Joe's pineapple bromeliad plants retail for $12.99 each and come in a woven decorative planter. The store sign notes that they're not just stunning - they ...

Bromeliads are beautiful tropical or semitropical plants that possess colorful foliage, beautiful flowers or both. One type, the pineapple, even produces edible fruit.

The bromeliad’s sword-like leaves (often striped) and top knot of exotic blooms is your clue that this indoor plant is related to the pineapple. They do not need a sunny window — bright light ...

Bromeliads, part of a tropical plant family that includes the sapphire tower Puya, air plants and — yes, the pineapple — are known for their adaptability and wide-ranging variety and color.

In fact, Southwest Florida was the “pineapple capital,” supplying the nation in Thomas Edison’s time. Visitors can still see a variety of bromeliads at Edison Ford today.

Bromeliads are in the pineapple family and most are epiphytes or air plants. In the tropics, they commonly grow on trees obtaining moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere and the debris that ...

Del Monte followed in 1917. Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a bromeliad. Most bromeliads are easy to grow and make great house plants. The pineapple is the only fruit-bearing bromeliad. Tiny oases ...

It's not the true pineapple that interests today's gardeners except for a small group of Floridians. It's the rest of the family that is pure tropicalia. These foliage plants are so unique in ...

There are many varieties of pineapple plants, all have long spiky foliage and a bud in the center of the leaves that flowers, then matures into a single fruit. It takes 14 to 18 months for the ...

But for the last 500 years, since the discovery of the pineapple — a terrestrial species, not an epiphytic one — bromeliads have been moved around the globe.

In 1935, Mulford Foster of Orlando, Fla., made trips to South America searching for new bromeliads. He discovered and introduced more bromeliads than anyone in history, more than 200 species.