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Vanilla orchid valuable

The main species harvested for vanilla . Although it is native to Mexico, it is now widely grown throughout the tropics. Madagascar is the world's largest producer.
Vanilla grows as a vine, climbing up an existing tree, pole, or other support. It can be grown in a wood , in a plantation , in increasing orders of productivity. Its growth environment is referred and includes not only the adjacent plants,
but also the climate, geography, and local geology. Left alone, it will grow as high as possible on the support, with few flowers. Every year, growers fold the higher parts of the plant downward so the plant stays at heights accessible by a standing human.

This also greatly stimulates flowering.In 1836 Belgian botanist Charles Antoine was drinking coffee on a patio in Papantla (Veracruz, Mexico) and noticed black bees flying around the vanilla flowers next to his table. He watched their actions closely as they would land and work their way under a flap inside the flower, transferring pollen in the process. Within hours, the flowers closed and several days later, He noticed vanilla pods beginning to form. He immediately began experimenting with hand pollination. A few years later in 1841, a simple and efficient artificial hand-pollination method was developed by a 12-year-old named Edmond Albius on Réunion, a method still used today as I watch it on TV May 09 - 2013 and to share with you the valuable of Vanilla Orchid .

A major use of vanilla is in flavoring ice cream and chocolate, custard, caramel, coffee, cakes, and others.