菠萝,乃是我国岭南四大名果之一,它开的花很不好看,故历来只作水果看待。从80年代以来,原产于美洲温暖地带的菠萝花悄悄地进入中国,它所开的花却是既奇特又新颖,但不能结果。由于它们两者都属凤梨科植物,为了区分起见,专家们就对这种只开花不结果的菠萝花称之为观赏凤梨,而那种花并不美却能结果的菠萝,叫做食用凤梨。 Pineapple, but one of the four famous Lingnan fruit in China, it is very beautiful flowers, it has always been only for fruit. Since the 1980s, pineapple flowers native to the warmth of the Americas have quietly entered China. The flowers they open are both curious and original, but they can not be fruitful. Because they are both bromeliads, for the sake of distinction, the experts call this ornamental pineapple, which is a blossoming fruitless fruit, and pineapple, which is not beautiful but fruitful, called edible pineapple.