Ananas bracteatus Ananas bracteatus Ananas bracteatus (common name, red pineapple) is a species of plant. It is native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador). "Ananas bracteatus" is grown as an ornamental plant for its decorative red fruit. The leaves are long with sharp spines, so it can be used as a protective hedge for home security. In colder places they can be grown indoors as a houseplant. It grows throughout Brazil at elevations of . "Ananas bracteatus" is a large terrestrial species of bromeliad that grows dark green leaves that fade red to pink when exposed to sunlight. The long
Fruit Column Fruit Column The fruit column (German: "Fruchtsäule") is a 26 metre high wood column decorated with fruits in Stuttgart, Germany. It weighs 3.5 tons and is remains the landmark of the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart although it is towered by numerous roundabouts. Already at the first celebration in 1818 there was a fruit column as landmark, which had been sketched and built by the master of building of yards of Wuerttemberg at that time, Nikolaus Thouret. After the First World War, with which beginning of the first German republic became, the fruit column was banned as "monarchistic" leftover from the