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Vanilla planifolia G. Jackson
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Vanilla Orchid
- Family: Orchidaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Central America, West Indies
- Habitat: large epiphytic climbing orchid
- Description: [Syn. Vanilla fragrans]
This leafy climbing orchid from hot, wet tropical America is grown for its pods which, when dried, become the commercial vanilla. The flowers are hand pollinated. Propagated generally by cutting. The vanilla flower is self-fertile, but incapable of self-pollination without the aid of an outside agency to either transfer the pollen from the anther to the stigma or to lift the flap or rostellum then press the anther against the stigma. The only time this can be accomplished is during the morning of the one day the flower is open. Unless pollination occurs, the flower drops from the vine the next day.
Restrictions:- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
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  Accession Data:- Accession # 198500001
- Source: Andrews
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1102 - 1100 - N Bench
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 03-10-2008
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Orchidaceae
- SubFamily: Epidendroideae
- Tribe: Vanilleae
- SubTribe: Vanillinae
References:California Rare Fruit Growers WWW Site
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