My pet pine, my pine apple

My almost-forty-year-old pet pine is still readying to produce its fruit.

Hundreds of years before Europeans first saw the bromeliad Ananas ("pineapples") in South America, English speakers referred to the young pine conelet, and to the pine cone with its nutty fruit, as "pineapple." What we call pine nuts today are the original pineapple.

The Anana fruit looked so much like the pine conelet that -- at least in English -- it came to be called pineapple.