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Vanilla planifolia Andrews

Vanilla planifolia, of the family Orchidaceae, is the only orchid grown as food: its fruit is the vanilla pod.

It is native to Mexico. It was not grown outside its native range until 1832, when Edmond Albius of Réunion found how to pollinate the flower by hand; the flower usually lasts a single day, and hand pollination remains essential.

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An engraved still of the model: five cured vanilla pods, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

fragrance material

Vanilla pods, cured

Five cured vanilla pods, the house’s own model. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

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Five cured vanilla pods (Vanilla planifolia): the green fruit of an orchid, blanched, sweated and dried over months until it turns dark brown, supple and glossy, with lengthwise wrinkles and a drier tip. Modelled in-house from the pods on the Materials page’s specimen shelf.

In the room
about 19 cm long, 12 cm wide, 2 cm high. Modelled, not measured: a typical size
Source
HombreOils, in-house: modelled, textured and baked in Blender from the forms of the specimen shelf on the Materials page
Licence
in-house
Model
12,000 triangles (simplified from 14,160)

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The record

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Latin name
Vanilla planifolia Andrews
documented

Vanilla planifolia Andrews

GBIF-1 · GBIF Secretariat (2023) · read 2026-09-30

the GBIF record’s scientific name; the accepted name in the GBIF Backbone (usage 2803398); GC-5 writes “Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews”

confidence A

Common name
vanilla
documented

Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Ramos-Castellá et al., 2016), a member of the Orchidaceae family, is the only orchid cultivated for human consumption due to its production of an aromatic fruit: the vanilla pod (Ahmad et al, 2020;

GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Family
Orchidaceae
documented

Orchidaceae

GBIF-1 · GBIF Secretariat (2023) · read 2026-09-30

the GBIF record’s family; and GC-5: “a member of the Orchidaceae family”

confidence A

Part used
the fruit, the vanilla pod
documented

Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Ramos-Castellá et al., 2016), a member of the Orchidaceae family, is the only orchid cultivated for human consumption due to its production of an aromatic fruit: the vanilla pod (Ahmad et al, 2020;

GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar et al. (2025). Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Cultivars
not on record
not on record

no cultivar is named in a filed source

Wikidata
Q7224923
documented

P225 taxon name: Vanilla planifolia

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item’s taxon name (P225) is “Vanilla planifolia”, the record’s botanical name without its author

confidence A

Origins on record
  • Madagascar
    documented

    small farms on the island; the share is not shown

    confidence B

Materials

Films and plates

  • SPEC-8 · vanilla: the /materials specimen still · still
  • OR-8 · vanilla: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-8 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
    a render-time texture (Forest Floor; a render input only): "Forest Floor", eye-candy.xyz (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Brown 02; a render input only): "Bark Brown 02", Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Claims register

Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

  • softened · Pollination window: The single day the flower is open (was: Pollination window ~4 hours)
    documented · the claims register

    GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

    softened by the house’s review 2026-09-27 (row 2295). GC-6: “Vanilla flowers are ephemeral and usually last a single day”, V. planifolia among them (GC-6). The old “~4 hours” and today’s “a few hours” have no filed source; “the single day it is open” would be sourced (main’s call). the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): the facts row reads “The single day the flower is open” (GC-6)

    where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

    confidence B

  • softened · A labour-intensive spice: each flower pollinated by hand on the single day it is open. (was: the retired wording is kept in the claims register (row 2290))
    documented · the claims register

    GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

    GC-6 supports the hand pollination (“hand pollination is required for fruit production”, GC-6); “labour-intensive” has no filed source. GC-6: “Vanilla flowers are ephemeral and usually last a single day”, V. planifolia among them (GC-6). The old “~4 hours” and today’s “a few hours” have no filed source; “the single day it is open” would be sourced (main’s call). the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): “in the few hours it is open” → “on the single day it is open” (GC-6)

    where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

    confidence B

  • softened · Pollination window: The single day the flower is open (was: Pollination window: ~4 hours)
    documented · the claims register

    GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

    GC-6: “Vanilla flowers are ephemeral and usually last a single day”, V. planifolia among them (GC-6). The old “~4 hours” and today’s “a few hours” have no filed source; “the single day it is open” would be sourced (main’s call). the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): the facts row reads “The single day the flower is open” (GC-6)

    where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

    confidence B

Sources

  1. GBIF-1 · GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.15468/39omei · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
  2. GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar TA, Cuellar-Sánchez A, Gómez-Velázquez HDJ, Monribot-Villanueva JL, Guerrero-Analco JA, Gutiérrez-Díaz I, Luna-Vital DA. Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches. Food Chemistry: X 2025;26:102269. DOI 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102269. PMID 40034982. PMCID PMC11872573. doi.org/10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102269 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
  3. GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF. Vanilla beyond Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla × tahitensis: Taxonomy and Historical Notes, Reproductive Biology, and Metabolites. Plants (Basel) 2022;11(23):3311. DOI 10.3390/plants11233311. PMID 36501350. PMCID PMC9739750. doi.org/10.3390/plants11233311 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
  4. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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this record as data: /data/botanical/vanilla-planifolia.json · version 4 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A