SC - New World foods

[Decker, Terry D.]

Pineapples and Spanish Moss are two different species.  Pineapple is Ananas
comosus.  Spainsh Moss is Tillandsia usneoides.

BTW, Spanish Moss is not a parasite as it does not use the host for
nourishment.  It uses the host only as physical support.

Bear

> In a message dated 9/16/99 1:28:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> lilinah at grin.net 
> writes:
> 
> << Pineapples don't grow on trees, that's for sure. I've never seen a
>  pineapple field in real life, but in photographs they appeared to be
>  growing up out of the earth. The fruit is on a stalk in the center of the
>  plant surrounded by very sharp leaves (like the ones on top of the fruit
>  but bigger).
>  
>  Don't look at me, I have a black thumb.
>  
>  Anahita
>   >>
> That is always how I have seen Pineapples grow also, thus the confusion
> with 
> Spanish Moss.  They seem to grow different?  Thus they should be in a 
> different genus?
> 
> Frederich
> 
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