Cultivated
Herbaceous perennial , up to 2 m tall or more with spirally arranged leaves and shallow roots . Stems short , stocky , circular in cross-section , up to 50 cm long and 8 cm wide , club-shaped . Leaves 30-50 in dense rosettes , stiff , tough , narrow , sword-shaped , evergreen , gray-green ; individual leaves up to 1 m long by 4 cm wide with spiny margins . Inflorescences borne on a scape (stalk) up to 50 cm long and subtended by bracts . Flowers purple or red , (50-200) ; sepals 3 ; petals 3 , small purple or red . Fruit up to 30 cm long , seedless , juicy syncarp , crowned with 20-30 leafy bracts ; flesh white to yellow . Seeds undeveloped . (POWO ; 2023) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Bromelia comosa L.
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Pineapple
Not used traditionally. Recently cultivated as food. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
