Editing Pineapple (section)

=== Precolonial cultivation ===
The wild plant originates from the [[Paraná River|Paraná]]–[[Paraguay River]] drainages between southern [[Brazil]] and [[Paraguay]].<ref name="Morton 1987" /><ref name=":1">Bertoni, {{lang|fr|italic=no|"Contributions a l'étude botanique des plantes cultivées. Essai d'une monographie du genre Ananas"}}, {{lang|fr|Annales Cient}}. Paraguay (2nd series) 4 (by1919:250–322).</ref><ref>[[Kenneth F. Baker|Baker, K. F.]]; Collins, J. L.  (1939). "Notes on the distribution and ecology of Ananas and Pseudananas in South America". ''American Journal of Botany''.</ref><ref>Collins. J. L. (1960). ''The pineapple: botany, utilization, cultivation''. London: Leonard Hill.</ref> Little is known about its domestication, but it spread as a crop throughout South America. Archaeological evidence of use is found as far back as 1200–800 BC (3200–2800 BP) in Peru<ref>Pearsall, Deborah M. (1992). "The Origins of Plant Cultivation in South America". In ''The Origins of Agriculture : An International Perspective''. 173–205. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.</ref> and 200 BC – 700 AD (2200–1300 BP) in Mexico,<ref>Callen, Eric O. (1967). "Analysis of the Tehuacan coprolites". ''The prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley'' 1: 261–289.</ref> where it was cultivated by the [[Maya peoples|Maya]]s and the [[Aztecs]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evolution of Crop Plants |editor-first=N. W. |editor-last=Simmonds |last=Pickersgill |first=B. |date=1976 |chapter=Pineapple}}</ref> By the late 1400s, cropped pineapple was widely distributed and a [[staple food]] of Native Americans. The first European to encounter the pineapple was [[Christopher Columbus]], in [[Guadeloupe]] on 4 November 1493.<ref name="history">{{Cite book|title=Journals and Other Documents of the Life of Christopher Columbus |last=Morrison |first=S. E. |publisher=Heritage Press |year=1963}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite book |last1=Rohtbach |first1=G. K. G.|last2=Leal |first2=F. |editor1-first=D. P. |editor1-last=Bartholomew |editor2-first=R. E. |editor2-last=Paull |editor3-first=K. G. |editor3-last=Rohrbach |title=The Pineapple: Botany, Production, and Uses |chapter=Chapter 1: History, distributions and World Production |year=2003 |publisher=CABI Publishing |location=Wallingford, UK |isbn=978-0-85199-503-8 |page=21 }}</ref> The Portuguese took the fruit from Brazil and introduced it into [[India]] by 1550.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/curry00lizz |title=Curry: a Tale of Cooks and Conquerors |last1=Collingham |first1=L |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-532001-5 |location=Oxford|url-access=registration}}</ref> The '{{Interlanguage link|Red Spanish|es|Piña Española Roja}}' cultivar was also introduced by the Spanish from Latin America to the [[Philippines]], and it was grown to produce ''[[piña]]'' fibers that would then be used to produce textiles from at least the 17th century.<ref name="pfmf"/>

Columbus brought the plant back to Spain and called it {{lang|es|piña de Indes}}, meaning "pine of the Indians". The pineapple was documented in Peter Martyr's ''[[Decades of the New World]]'' (1516) and [[Antonio Pigafetta]]'s {{lang|it|Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo}} (1524–1525), and the first known illustration was in [[Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés|Oviedo's]] {{lang|es|Historia General de Las Indias}} (1535).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hayward|first=Wyndham|date=1956|title=The Pineapple meets the Press|url=http://journal.bsi.org/V06/3/|journal=The Bromeliad Society Bulletin|volume=6|access-date=11 December 2019|archive-date=19 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319082856/http://journal.bsi.org/V06/3/|url-status=dead}}</ref>