How do pineapples grow?

I don't know.

I think they grow sort of like watermelons and squash. On the ground, but I guess they don't have vines and such, so probably more like cabbages. I've never seen them growing, even when I was in Southeast Asia...real fresh pineapple is incredible. You just can't get them like that here.

Trees?

I always have an image in my mind of them growing on trees (unlike bananas ) but I'd wager that's wrong!

Good survey.

I think they grow most like cabbages, but with more plant around them.

I always thought they grow on palm tree, like coconuts.

Sticking out of the ground, like cabbages

Bananas don't grow up on trees? I'm so ignorant!!

They grow just like apples...except on pine trees right?

There are fields of pineapples not far from me. They are succulents, looking sort of like agave cactus from a distance. The pineapple forms in the centre of the plant.

I really don't know!
I just buy them in supermarkets

On trees, like bananas. Mmmmm, I've never seen a pineapple grow.

under the sea and they grow w/ windows and a door

I say on the ground like cabbages I think.

I remember now once driving into a pinapple field in Okinawa and getting out and picking some they were good fresh picked.

On trees, I would guess.

i am guessing they grow on trees. i know thats how cocunuts grow.

really fresh pineapple is like night and day compared to pineapple from most grocery stores... it's tender and sweet and not tart at all...

trees

The correct answer is that they stick out of the ground, similar to cabbages but with spiky leaves around them. An alternative way of comparing them is to a very short and stubby maize (corn) plant.

There's a picture of one in a tub here:
http://www.iflorist.com/en/act/images/items/or_10136l.jpg

And here's a field of cultivated pineapples:
http://agrolink.moa.my/comoditi/nenas/pa_row.jpg

If you take a fresh pineapple from the supermarket, cut the top off and then put it in a dish of water, a new pineapple will grow out of the top!

I don't know and I don't care because I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE PINEAPPLE!

They grow out of the ground like a cabbage

I was born & raised in Hawaii & I know but I'm not going to tell.

The stork brings them, silly.

No way!!! How long does it take?

fractal pineappes

I knew there was a pineapple survey here somewhere. I'd already forgotten

What, how long does it take to grow a fresh pineapple from an old one? the plant will develop pretty quickly, but it may not produce a fruit (which is the pineapple) straight away. It needs to be kept nice and warm to produce a pineapple.

On trees, like bananas.

i seriously put a lot of thought into this and now im so curious to know.

I really hope they wouldn't grow from the ground...OUCH!

of course on trees stupids!!!!

On trees?

funny i duno and i've never even concidered it before

hummm, in trees right???

I would have know or at least remembered the answer if it had been on coconuts

ok, so my mom goes to work thinking it's an average day when she hears some people outside her office talking about pineapples. they're talking about how they grow from the ground and my mom comes thinking it's april fool's and that these people are full of it. sure enough, she checks out google and low and behold: they grow from the ground. by the way they are shaped, i'm guesing that everything below the leaves is undergorund while the leaves stick out, just like carrots.

ok, i found a picture http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/rooiman/...