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

Flowers on the vanilla orchid plant bloom one at a time ... Single pods of Tahitian vanilla beans can sell for up to $9, while you can grab up to three Madagascan vanilla beans for the same ...

after close inspection of the vanilla orchid Vanilla planifolia, figured out how to hand-pollinate its flower to produce vanilla beans. Albius used the stick to push up a flap in the orchid flower ...

The plant is a member of the orchid family and is the only edible ... and beverages as well as in medicines and fragrances. Vanilla beans (bottom) can be used to flavor ice cream or as vanilla ...

In fact, less than 1 percent of all vanilla flavoring comes from actual vanilla beans ... dead flowers. The problem was pollination. In keeping with its vexatious nature, the vanilla orchid ...

Depending on where the beans are harvested, vanilla may taste dark-sweet ... Fortunately, each orchid may bear as many as 20 flowers over the course of a couple of months, although growers ...