HAWAIIAN
STYLE QUILTS® PINEAPPLE COLLECTION
The pineapple is a member of the
family Bromeliaceae which has 2,000 species, most
ornamental. Native to southern Brazil and Paraguay (perhaps especially the Parana-Paraguay River) area where wild relatives occur, the pineapple was
apparently domesticated by the Indians and carried by them up through South and
Central America to Mexico and the West Indies long before the arrival of
Europeans. Christopher Columbus and his shipmates saw the pineapple for the
first time on the island of Guadeloupe in 1493 and then again in Panama in 1502.
Caribbean Indians placed pineapples or pineapple crowns outside the entrances to
their dwellings as symbols of friendship and hospitality. Europeans adopted the
motif and the fruit was represented in carvings over doorways in Spain, England,
and later in New England for many years. The plant has become naturalized in
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Trinidad.
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