If you'd never seen one, it'd look like a pinecone to you. When European explorers first encountered the fruit in the America, they called them "pineapples" because of the resemblance to pine cones.
Pineapple plants look like giant, buried pineapples. What if all of these were giant pineapples, planted underneath the soil with just the top part visible. Freaky, eh?
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