Which now makes me wonder--what is like the pineapple. I'll need to dive back into google.
It's a bromeliad. I don't think there are any other bromeliads which are grown commercially. (Some ornamentals, that's about it.)
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Nov 28, 2012 4:03:34 pm PST #2487 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2012 4:15:06 pm PST #2488 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a widely grown Jamaican plant that's marginally like pineapples, but it doesn't have fruit. The leaves are maybe 18" long, green and a little bit of white, firm in that succulent way, and doubly good to use as a sword--first the basic shape matches, and then there are thorns all around the edges. Long since forgotten what we call them.
And aloe is similar--but no fruit. And that's definitely sold like it's grown commercially.
I am not even sure how to start googling that--I guess you start with bromeliads and work your way out, but I don't know if the two I remember from jamaica are.
Jesse - Nov 28, 2012 4:15:06 pm PST #2489 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm trying work out what we need to be protected from, such that so many magazines, etc, go to town.
At this point, it's got to be just because they can, right? I mean, everyone knows that people have (for example) armpits.
billytea - Nov 28, 2012 4:33:29 pm PST #2490 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I am not even sure how to start googling that--I guess you start with bromeliads and work your way out, but I don't know if the two I remember from jamaica are.
Maybe look in the pineapple's genus, Ananas.
Jesse - Nov 28, 2012 4:36:47 pm PST #2491 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, Dolly Parton on Colbert is the best.
-t - Nov 28, 2012 4:39:48 pm PST #2492 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The duet at the end is adorable.
Do bromeliads all not need soil? That's the thing I think I know about them, they snag nutrients from the air. I didn't know pineapples were bromeliads, neat.
Liese S. - Nov 28, 2012 4:44:44 pm PST #2493 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The only thing I know about bromeliads is that apparently there are some where frogs live.
-t - Nov 28, 2012 4:46:31 pm PST #2494 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I get that reference.
Gudanov - Nov 28, 2012 4:50:49 pm PST #2495 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
By heathcare professionals?
Yep.
Thanks -t and Sox. I hope so too.
billytea - Nov 28, 2012 4:50:55 pm PST #2496 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Do bromeliads all not need soil? That's the thing I think I know about them, they snag nutrients from the air.
There are terrestrial bromeliads too, with root systems that draw nutrients from the soil. The pineapple's one of them; the biggest one is this: [link]