More pictures of the Azores Islands, as promised! These pictures focus on some of the “special” plants that grow in this special place!

Banana trees are found around the islands. The bananas are smaller than we are used to here in the U.S. but these are so much sweeter! The inflorescence (the dark part) is where the flowers form which in turn form the banana. If you look closely you can see the tip of the white flower with a small banana forming behind it.

How do you think pineapples grow? Most people would say a tree. It’s actually a plant, a plant that is in the Bromeliad family, which many of us are familiar with as houseplants, seen below. 
                                                      
These pineapples are growing in glass greenhouses in São Miguel (the largest of the 9 Azores Islands). This is the only place in Europe where pineapples grow. So cool!