How To Grow Pineberries: Strawberries That Taste Like Pineapple The pineberry is real, although they aren’t crosses between pineapples and strawberries (despite some misleading headlines to that effect. Pineberry is an albino strawberry cultivar with a pineapple-like flavor, white coloring, and red seeds. Pineberry is based on the original strawberry hybrids that arose in cultivation in Europe, …