https://orchidsociety.com/tags/hand-pollination/ Recent content in Hand Pollination on Orchid Society Hugo en-us Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://orchidsociety.com/mexico-has-more-wild-vanilla-records-than-madagascar-which-grows-most-of-the-crop/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://orchidsociety.com/mexico-has-more-wild-vanilla-records-than-madagascar-which-grows-most-of-the-crop/ There are 626 GBIF records for Vanilla planifolia, which is a startlingly small number for the second most expensive spice in the world. Mexico leads with 100. The United States has 52, almost all of them Hawaii and Florida. Réunion has 43, Madagascar 39, Guadeloupe 33, Costa Rica 30, the Seychelles 25. Photo: marcodiazz, via GBIF (CC0) Madagascar grows a large share of the world’s vanilla and appears in this list below Réunion, a far smaller island.