pineapples are not melons they're p i n e a p p l e s

Pineapples are basically a collection of berries fused into a central stalk. The pineapple itself is not a berry, though; it is an algamation of a group of berries. Each little pineapple berry grows as a normal fruit does, sprouting flowers then developing into a fruit, but later these berries all combine into a singular mass known as a p i n e a p p l e. nOT A mELoN