{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "vanilla-planifolia",
 "type": "Botanical",
 "version": 2,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "GBIF-1",
  "GC-5",
  "GC-6"
 ],
 "notes": "Native to Mexico: “the origin of the vanilla cultivated worldwide was in Mexico, most precisely in the Papantla region” (docs/sources/GC-6-de-oliveira-2022-vanilla.md:19); not cultivated outside its native range until 1832, when Edmond Albius of Réunion devised hand pollination (docs/sources/GC-6-de-oliveira-2022-vanilla.md:16).",
 "latin_name": {
  "value": "Vanilla planifolia Andrews",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GBIF-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/step7/gbif/gbif-Vanilla_planifolia.usage.json:23",
  "quote": "\"scientificName\": \"Vanilla planifolia Andrews\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the accepted name in the GBIF Backbone (usage 2803398); GC-5 writes “Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews”"
 },
 "common_name": {
  "value": "vanilla",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-5",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-5-cuan-escobar-2025-vanilla-curing.md:13",
  "quote": "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;",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "Orchidaceae",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GBIF-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/step7/gbif/gbif-Vanilla_planifolia.usage.json:9",
  "quote": "\"family\": \"Orchidaceae\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "and GC-5: “a member of the Orchidaceae family”"
 },
 "part_used": {
  "value": "the fruit, the vanilla pod",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-5",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-5-cuan-escobar-2025-vanilla-curing.md:13",
  "quote": "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;",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "cultivars": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no cultivar is named in a filed source"
 },
 "origins": [
  {
   "origin": "madagascar-mg",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GC-6",
   "where": "docs/sources/GC-6-de-oliveira-2022-vanilla.md:13",
   "quote": "Meanwhile, up to 75% of the world’s natural vanilla comes from small farms on the island of Madagascar [1].",
   "note": "small farms on the island; the share is not shown",
   "confidence": "B"
  }
 ],
 "materials": [
  {
   "material": "cured-vanilla-pods",
   "process": "curing"
  }
 ],
 "media": [
  "spec-vanilla",
  "or-8-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-vanilla",
  "card": "/materials#naturals"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Vanilla planifolia, of the family Orchidaceae, is the only orchid grown as food: its fruit is the vanilla pod.",
  "body": [
   "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."
  ]
 }
}