What is the fruit type of pineapple?

🔑 Key Points
🍍 Composite Fruits:
→ Fruits that develop from many ovaries and different floral parts of an inflorescence are known as Composite fruits.
→ Composite fruits are of two types:
➡️ Sorosis: The fruit developed from a spike, spadix, or catkin inflorescence, e.g., Mulberry, pineapple, jackfruit, etc.
➡️ Sycosis: The fruit developed from a hypanthium, e.g., ficus species, banyan, and peepal.
→ Pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) botanically belongs to the ornamental Bromeliaceae family, originating in tropical South America.
→ Pineapple is a type of sorosis fruit developed from many ovaries and other floral parts of an inflorescence.
→ The combination of numerous flowers, their blood vessels, ovaries, and other reproductive organs makes the fruit look thicker.