Fruit loot: The £10,000 British pineapple grown under glass – the way they used to in the days when you could only RENT one
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 22, 2012 0:45
A pineapple grown in Britain in horse manure has been hailed the world’s most expensive piece of fruit — worth a whopping £10,000.
The fruit was nurtured over two years using expensive traditional Victorian gardening techniques at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.
The gardens have been growing pineapples the same way since the 19th Century, when they used to rent them out to wealthy Victorian families as a dinner table decoration.
It is worth so much because of its rarity, production values and the unique location — pineapples are usually grown in much hotter climes.
They are developed under 30 tonnes of manure — and are regularly soaked in horse urine.
The original gardens were at their peak during the 19th century. After decades of neglect and a devastating hurricane, they were restored in the 1990s.
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