Submitted by CuriousHuman111 t3_127b7px in explainlikeimfive
avalon1805 t1_jeflsvl wrote
Reply to comment by atomfullerene in ELI5: How do we continue to grow seedless fruit if they don't contain seeds? by CuriousHuman111
Wait, pineapples have seeds?! Damn, you just messed my head real good
atomfullerene t1_jefpoc0 wrote
well, most of them don't, but they would if they were fertilized. It would look like this
Interestingly, pineapples almost never reproduce by seeds. Even in the wild, most of their reproduction is vegetative. Why? Their huge, spiny fruits are adapted for being eaten by the extinct megafauna of South America. Ground sloths, Gomphotheres, etc. When those animals went extinct, pineapples and their relatives lost their usual means of dispersion and had to limp by on occasional lucky seed spread and vegetative growth...until humans started growing them.
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