while you can grab up to three Madagascan vanilla beans for the same amount. According to the BBC, although European conquerors tried to grow this fragrant orchid, they didn’t succeed until th ...

Vanilla vines take two to four years to fully mature, and their flowers only bloom for one day of the year. In order for the plants to produce beans, they have to be pollinated that day.

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid ... The Aztecs, who subjugated the Totonacs in 1480, knew the plant as tlilxochitl, or “black pod” (a name which would be translated ...

But the extract is made by steeping vanilla beans in alcohol. Vanilla beans are the pods of a flowering plant. And then there ...