Ananas Ananas Ananas is a plant genus of the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), native to South America and Central America, which includes the species "Ananas comosus", the pineapple. This genus originated in Mesoamerica and was brought to the Caribbean Islands by the Carib natives. The oldest register with the representation of the fruit seems to be included in the Cascajal Block, attributed to the Olmec civilization. In 1493, Christopher Columbus first saw plants of this genus in Guadeloupe. It was brought from Brazil to Europe by the Portuguese, and from there was distributed to the Pacific Islands by the Spanish and the
Boletellus ananas named by Moses Ashley Curtis as "Boletus ananas" in 1848, based on specimens he found near the Santee River, in South Carolina. In 1909, William Murrill described the new genus "Boletellus" and made "Boletellus ananas" the type species. According to Murrill, the taxon "Boletus isabellinus", described by Charles Horton Peck in 1897 from specimens collected in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is a synonym of "B. ananas"; Peck described this species from undeveloped specimens. Wally Snell later doubted Murrill's conclusion in a 1933 publication; he considered the differences in the spore structure too great to consider the species conspecific with "B. ananas",