The nursery is one of four opened in the region last year as part of an ongoing effort to promote agroforestry—the practice ...

Hailed in the 1800s for its medicinal properties and currently loved as the most popular flavor of ice cream, much about vanilla, which is a species of orchid, remains a mystery. "It's a plant ...

For Midwesterners, sensuous vanilla is about as exotic as you can get. It comes from the only orchid that bears edible fruit among thousands of orchid species, thriving only in tropical climates ...

Vanilla is a member of the orchid family, a sprawling conglomeration of some 25,000 different species. Vanilla is a native of South and Central America and the Caribbean; and the first people to ...

The scents and flavors vary from country to country, depending on the quality of soils, climate, curing methods, and species. Nearly all of the vanilla produced commercially today is hand ...

As a life-long science geek, one of my hero/favorite authors has long been Cal Tech physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman. His collection of short works, "The Pleasure of Finding Things ...

This is difficult, uncertain work. To begin with, while the vanilla orchid — planifolia is the species most widely grown — is a hermaphrodite (like most flowering plants), with both male and f ...

Seven varieties of vanilla species can be found here, and it is possible that there are more that are completely wild and hard to trace in the jungle. “We named them all by the places where we found ...

The vanilla orchid family is quite large with more than 100 species spanning the globe in mostly tropical areas. According to Linares, it’s possible that a vanilla species was being traded to ...

From there, it landed in Tahiti, where it was further crossbred and became a different species altogether (Vanilla tahitensis Moore), according to Rain. It's since moved into production in Papua ...