Although much of the vanilla used for flavoring and fragrance today is produced synthetically, natural vanilla comes from the seed pod of an orchid plant. Vanilla planifolia is a vigorous, vining ...

In its native range, the vanilla orchid flower ... goes except for the one difference being that most Tahitian vanilla comes from a hybrid resulting from a cross between Vanilla planifolia and ...

The flavor first came from the pods of Vanilla planifolia, an orchid native to the mountain forests of Mexico. Its flower blooms a single day out of the year. The indigenous Totonacs call vanilla ...

Vanilla comes from the vanilla bean, the fruit of the orchid Vanilla planifolia. While a native of Mexico, most of the world's commercial vanilla is grown in Madagascar, where the flowers must be ...

Editor's note: The online version of this story has been updated to note that vanilla is native to Central and South America. Ice cream, yogurt, cookies, cakes, pies and more.

Vanilla comes from a fruit that is produced by the vanilla planifolia orchid, and the beans found inside the long fruit are the delicious, aromatic ingredient we use in baking, cooking, and much more.

Indigenous people first harvested the beans from Vanilla planifolia, a tropical orchid native to Veracruz, along the Gulf of Mexico. When Aztecs conquered the region, they taxed the Totonacs in ...

Before you go looking for a plant or a cutting of V. planifolia (vanilla is usually propagated from cuttings) be aware it will take 2-3 years for the cutting to root and an additional 3-4 years to ...

Indigenous people first harvested the beans from Vanilla planifolia, a tropical orchid native to Veracruz, along the Gulf of Mexico. When Aztecs conquered the region, they taxed the Totonacs in ...