Do bromeliad grow pineapples?

Pineapples are bromeliads, but not all bromeliads are pineapples. If you take the top of a pineapple plant, and give it the right conditions, it will eventually grow a pineapple. Then the mother plant will die, and a baby plant will come up from the base to produce next year's pineapple.

The same goes for all bromeliads. The plant that bloomed (the mother plant) will never bloom again. It will send out "pups" that will grow and bloom, then they will die, and on and on.

Bromeliads are not poisonous to animals, but it's still not wise to let your cat eat it.

Pineapples like lots of sun and grow well in tropical regions around the world. In addition to Hawaii, pineapple for the fresh market is grown in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador and Nicaragua. The pineapple is technically not a single fruit, but a sorosis. The fruits of a hundred or more separate flowers grow on the plant spike. As they grow, they swell with juice and pulp, expanding to become the "fruit." Pineapples do not grow on trees, as many erroneously think. They are the fruit of a bromeliad, rising from the center on a single spike surrounded by sword-like leaves. The pineapple plant is the only bromeliad to produce edible fruit. Commercial plants are only harvested two to three years since the fruit begins to get smaller with each year of plant life. Pineapples weigh between four and nine pounds on average but can reach weights up to twenty pounds. The waste parts left from canning plants, including the skin, core and ends, are used to make alcohol, vinegar and food for livestock