Strange pineapple draws curious crowds in Laos
Photo: This enormous pineapple is drawing fascinated visitors to the temple where it has been put on display.
Two strange pineapples, one shaped like a dragon and the other shaped like a heart, found at a farm in Vientiane province, are drawing curious crowds.
One amazing fruit, shaped like a heart and weighing 8 kilograms, and another pineapple shaped like a dragon and weighing about 7 kilograms, are now on display in Viengkham district.
As they are so unusual, the couple who found them decided to offer them to Phonesom temple...more >>
Ms Sone, 50, and her family are farmers and grow more than 1,000 pineapples on their land.
“We have no idea how these two pineapples came to be growing on our plantation. My husband asked me to keep them because they are so unusual.”
Last year, she found another pineapple shaped like a heart on her farm. She decided not to harvest it and left in the field, where it was eaten by rats.
This year, she was more surprised to find two more strange pineapples - one shaped like a dragon and one resembling (with a vivid stretch of the imagination) a heart, so she decided to offer them to the local monks.
The pineapples have drawn crowds to the temple. People offer incense and candles and donate money to the strange looking fruit.
Ms Sone cut away the roots from the heart-shaped pineapple, but left the dragon-shaped one intact.
“The heart pineapple is ripe and smells good, but the dragon one is still green.” she said.
“I never expected to see anything like this. I think they are quite special and rare. Now it's up to the monks at the temple to look after them as they see fit.”
By Phonesavanh Sangsomboun
Vientianetimes
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We have the same, beautuful. An in planting we have seen another. Do not cit the roots jist plant if U'v foung another. Neil, von Lao.
Thakx for àSharing.