However, even without blooming, these climbing orchids are striking, and you may be able to entice them to produce creamy-white blooms and vanilla pods with patience and hand-pollination.

flattening the anther sac and the stigma of the orchid blossom with his finger and thumb, and that is still used today, all over the world, to pollinate vanilla orchids manually and produce large ...

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because they are both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...

Vanilla beans are the fruit of the vanilla orchid, a tropical climbing plant ... and Tahiti. After pollination, the beans require months of meticulous care and up to a year to harvest, which ...