Colour tattoo of a pineapple with black outline and green, yellow and orange watercolour-style fills on the forearm.

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Watercolour-style pineapple on a forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A pineapple is drawn with a bold black outline, with its crown of leaves on top and the diamond-patterned skin below. The leaves are filled with green and the fruit with yellow and orange, with soft washes and small red speckles around the design. It sits on the inner forearm against a plain, light skin background.

Botanical Forearm Pineapple Fruit Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The pinery at Penhallow was kept as hot as a bread oven, and by August the air inside tasted of wet slate and sugar. You were nine the summer Mr Tregear let you carry the watering can down its brick aisles, past rows of spiky crowns standing in their pots like a regiment of green hats.

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He showed you how to tell a ripe one. You gave the fruit a sharp tug at the top, and if the leaves came away clean, it was ready. When you asked why the skin looked like rows of little diamonds, he pressed his thumb into them until they gave like warm wax. "The sun does the colouring," he said. "Everything in here is painted by the weather." You believed him, the way children believe anything said over a potting bench.

The last fruit ripened the week the estate was sold. Mr Tregear could not climb the ladder to the high shelf any more, so you did it for him, your hands sticky with the sweet juice that ran down your wrists. He cut the fruit with his old pocketknife and gave you the crown to take home.

That evening you pushed its base into a jam jar of damp soil and set it on the windowsill, where the late light came through the glass in long gold bars. Give it three years, he had said. Then you'll have your own bit of heat.