| Before the cultivation of the ananas was introduced, the Dutch had begun to employ tanners bark for making forcing-beds. |
| The German gardens in which the ananas was first brought to maturity appear to have been the following. |
| Nana was the Brazilian name,1550 which the Portuguese turned into ananas. |
| Gonalo Hernandez de Oviedo is, as far as I know, the first person who described and delineated the ananas. |
| Ananas is a terrestrial genus, but it grows continuously, whereas most terrestrial orchids have distinct active and dormant phases. |
