Vanilla🌸

An evergreen climbing orchid, native to Mexico. Cultivated in the tropics, where unripe pods are fermented and dried into 'vanilla beans' — used worldwide to flavor ice cream and confections. One of the most expensive spices, second only to saffron.

Identification Points

• ✓Climbing vine with aerial roots attaching to trees
• ✓Fleshy, flat, green leaves
• ✓Pale yellowish-green flowers, lasting only a day

Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification

Phylogenetic Positionラン科 →