World's most expensive fruit is pineapple grown in Cornwall

  • 5 years ago
A pineapple grown in Britain in horse manure and urine has been dubbed the world's most expensive piece of fruit - worth a whopping £10,000. The fruit was nurtured over two years using traditional - and very expensive - Victorian gardening techniques at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. Horticulturalists created tropical conditions using small greenhouses heated using a chemical reaction between 30 tonnes of manure, urine, and piles of straw. 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.

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