Ananas English. Commercial pineapple plantations were established in Hawaii, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Florida, and Cuba. The pineapple has become one of the world's most popular fruits. The tough leaves grow in large rosettes, arising basally from a crown. These leaves are long and lanceolate with a serrated or thorny margin. The flowers, arising from the heart of the rosette, each have their own sepals. They grow into a compact head on a short, robust stalk. The sepals become fleshy and juicy and develop into the well-known complex form of the pseudocarp fruit, crowned by a rosette of leaves. "Ananas" species
Fruit salad fruit salads are popular party and holiday fare, usually made with "buko", or young coconut, and condensed milk in addition to other canned or fresh fruit. Mexico has popular variation of the fruit salad called Bionico which consists various fruits drenched in condensed milk and sour cream mix. There is also an extended variety of fruit salads in Moroccan cuisine, often as part of a kemia, a selection of appetizers or small dishes analogous to Spanish tapas or eastern Mediterranean mezze. A fruit salad ice cream is also commonly manufactured, with small pieces of real fruit embedded in, flavored either