Plantacja ananasów. Queensland, Australia
[ENG] I have to admit that I have never really wondered how do pineapples look like in nature. When I was standing in front of some field, I was told that this is a pineapple field. Only then I noticed the fruits among the green manes. I guess I must have expected them to grow on trees just like apples. Until then I have seen pineapples on market stalls or shop shelfs, so much higher than pineapples normally grow. They grow on small bushes close to the ground. The name of the fruit puzzles me. The rough, tough and inedible crust of the fruit reminds me of pine cones. The fruit tastes slightly like a sweet apple. The flesh of the fruit also has yellowish color like an apple. Besides ripe apples fall to the ground. I wonder if the people who first discovered pineapples also had similar associations.
Etymologia:
W istocie po raz pierwszy użycie słowa "pineapple" w języku angielskim odnotowano w kontekście organów reprodukcyjnych drzew iglastych (szyszek). Kiedy europejscy odkrywcy okryli ten tropikalny owoc w Ameryce Południowej, nazwali go "pineapple" właśnie ze względu na podobieństwo do szyszek.
Z kolei naukowy dwumian Ananas comosus, ananas, oryginalna nazwa owocu pochodzi od słowa w języku Tuoi nanas oznaczającego "doskonały owoc" i comosus, czubaty lub kibiciasty odnosi się do trzonu owocu. Inne owoce należące do tego gatunku również często nazywa się szyszkami, również w innych językach. Po hiszpańsku "piña", a więc szyszka lub ananá (ananás).
Źródło: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple
Ananas w ogóle został odkryty przez Europejczyków dość późno, bo dopiero w 1493 roku przez Krzysztofa Kolumba na Gwadelupie. Ojczyzną ananasów są wyżynne oraz górzyste obszary Brazylii i Paragwaju. Stamtąd ananasy zostały sprowadzone w XVI wieku i później w inne miejsca świata.
Jak już wiecie, nie są to owoce rodzime dla Australii. Do Australii ananasy trafiły z Indii dopiero w 1838 roku! dzięki misjonarzom luterańskim.
Etymology:
The word "pineapple" in English was first recorded to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" (first referenced in 1664 for resemblance to the pine cone).[9][10]
In the scientific binomial Ananas comosus, ananas, the original name of the fruit, comes from the Tupi word nanas, meaning "excellent fruit,"[11] as recorded by André Thevet in 1555, and comosus, tufted, refers to the stem of the fruit. Other members of the Ananasgenus are often called pine, as well, in other languages. In Spanish, pineapples are called piña ("pine cone"), or ananá (ananás) (for example, the piña colada drink).[citation needed]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple
Pineapples were discovered by Europeans quite late. Christopher Columbus tried them first in 1493 in Guadeloupe. Pineapples origin from upland and mountainous terrains of Brazil and Paraguay. From there pineapples were imported in the sixteenth century and later in other places of the world.
As you can see, pineapples are not native to Australia. They reached Australia from India only in 1838! thanks to the Lutheran missionaries.