I may have been surprised about the pineapple, but I definitely knew that coffee grew on trees!  Here are the beans on a coffee tree at Powell Gardens. On Today’s Date in the Past: One Thing, Three Ways:  Battlin’ Bears in the NAIA Tournament A Glimpse of Downtown Did Someone Drop Some Seed?

I hope I’m not the only person living in a non-tropical environment who was surprised to learn that pineapples grow on plants, not trees.  I have no idea why I thought they grew on trees like coconuts and bananas, but I did. Here’s a photo of a pineapple plant in a greenhouse at Powell Gardens. […]