Origin: obscure. The first recorded collection was made by Perrottet in 1819 from French Guiana as Maipourri. Five crowns were sent to Versailles, then to Great Britain. These were materials from which the pineapple industries in Australia, Jamaica, and Hawaii were originated. Smooth Cayenne is considered to be the best and the most widely cultivated cultivar because of its slicing quality. Tree: open-rosette, broad, short, with pale-green bases, spineless, except near tip. Relatively short fruit peduncle. Flower: lilac color. Fruit: large (0.5 to 4 kg), cylindrical, flat, and wide eyes and orangyyellow skin when full-ripe. Flesh: pale yellow, nonfibrous, and more or less translucent, medium core; TSS 13.6%, TA 14.5%, vitamin C 20.3 mg/ 100 ml juice. Fruit qualities depend on clone, environment, time, and length of growth cycle and the amount of care provided. Very susceptible to wilt and nematodes. There are numerous clones of Smooth Cayenne, such as Champaka 153, Champaka 180, Hilo, 53-116, 59-656, and Cayenne Azores (F200) in Hawaii. G-25, G-32-33, and Cayenne de guinee in Guinea; Cayenne Guadeloupe, Sto Dominguo Cayenne in the West Indies; and Typhones 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Taiwan.
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