a pineapple is neither a pine, nor an apple...?

So why is called a pineapple if its not an apple and doesn't grow on pine trees?

From Wikipedia:

The name pineapple in English comes from the similarity of the fruit to a pine cone.
The word "pineapple", first recorded in 1398, was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit, they called them "pineapples" (term first recorded in that sense in 1664) because it resembled what we know as pine cones. The term "pine cone" was first recorded in 1694 to replace the original meaning of "pineapple".[1]



Kind of less interesting than I was hoping. Oh well. Its something that I had been wondering for quite a while now.