Ananas comosus, a tropical fruit of impressive appearance and attractive flavour, now grown in hot regions all round the world. The original home of the pineapple was the lowlands of Brazil, where several Ananas species grow wild. Some of these bear edible but seedy fruits. No primitive form of the modern pineapple, which is almost invariably seedless, has been found, and the evolution of the fruit we know remains a mystery; but cultivation had certainly spread from Brazil to the W. Indies before the Europeans arrived