Today, most vanilla beans come from orchids cultivated in the South Pacific, notably in Madagascar. "Vanilla beans look like a green runner bean (a bean vegetable), hence the reference to 'bean ...

Containing mandarin leaf, queen of the night flower and tonka bean ... Madagascar Vanilla has that unmistakable sweet scent and sticks to the skin — in a good way. Grounded with vanilla orchid ...

Vanilla prices have climbed so high it's worth more by weight than silver. This increase in price has to do with a number of factors, including vanilla bean theft, complex pollination, extreme ...

When it comes to cost, all vanilla beans are not created equal, and Tahitian vanilla beans are the most expensive in the world. Most people have heard of Madagascar vanilla, which isn't surprising ...

Plant researcher Derek Haynes spills the beans about vanilla, explaining why ‘vanilla ... hand because the primary pollinator of the plant, the orchid bee in Central America, was not native to ...