A PINEAPPLE grown in horse manure in Britain has been hailed the world’s most expensive piece of fruit — worth £10,000.
Experts spent two years nurturing the pineapple in a greenhouse using Victorian gardening techniques, which involved adding horse urine to 30 tons of manure and straw.
Seven other pineapples are nearly ripe for harvest at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.
Each costs £1,200 to grow but the £10,000 one won’t be sold — garden staff will eat it.
A spokesman said the fruit was expected to be “deliciously sweet with an explosive flavour”.