piñuela

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In many tropical countries colonized by the Spanish, a name applied generally to plants of the pineapple family, from their resemblance in habit of growth to a pineapple, especially Bromelia Pinguin, a plant with rigid, sword-like leaves armed with recurved spines and much used for hedges to inclose garden-patches.
• noun In Porto Rico, a name applied to epiphytal bromelias and other epiphytal plants, including a number of orchids; among the latter, Cyrtopodium punctatum, Ornithidium coccinium, and Oncidium Baueri.