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A pineapple plant usually produces one main fruit from its central growing point.
After fruiting, the plant can produce side shoots or suckers around its base, which can grow into new plants. These offsets are one of the traditional ways pineapples are propagated.
A mature planting can therefore continue through new shoots even after the original plant has produced its fruit. The fruit seen in a market is only one stage in a much longer plant cycle.
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