World's most expensive pineapple grown in UK garden
The world's most expensive pineapple - worth around £10,000 - was grown in a garden in the UK but was sliced up and eaten by those who nurtured it.
The world's most expensive pineapple has been grown in a British garden.
The tropical fruit was worth £10,000 but was sliced and eaten by the 15 workers who grew it rather than sold for big-money.
The pineapple was grown in Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan and was kept extra warm during the process with the use of horse manure.
Each pineapple takes two years to grow but only produces one of the spiky fruits with the Lost Gardens revealing that a single juicy treat costs £1,000 to nurture.
Gardener Dina - who ate one of the expensive slices - said: "It was a momentous occasion for the team who were each treated to a piece of lusciously juicy fruit - just as you would have in the tropics.
"It's almost sad to crop it but we take the crown and replant it."
