Pineapples!

I discovered recently that Pineapple plants can be grown asexually from the fruit; as it happens each pineapple plant takes two years to yield a single pineapple and then dies - very interesting.

So I thought I'd photograph this process; starting with a pineapple:

We ate the fruity flesh for breakfast and cleaned all the fruit off the leafy top bit and strip off a few leaves:

The next step is to let the 'spike' dry out for a few days before trying  to get it to grow roots.