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 although he admitted it was impossible to come to any definitive conclusions until mature fruit bodies and spore prints were available for study. Rolf Singer and colleagues (1992) suggested the name "Boletellus coccineus" for "Boletellus ananas". Singer created this name, however, in the mistaken belief that the earliest available name for the taxon was "Boletus coccineus", proposed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1838. However, Fries’s name is an illegitimate later homonym (compare with "Boletus coccineus", named by Bulliard in 1791), and Singer’s combination is actually based on "Strobilomyces coccineus", named by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1888. The earliest available name