In article ,
"Cereoid-UR12-" wrote:

Not so fast, Buckwheat.

There are Vanilla species native to and grown in Madagascar.


Bill Ranseen wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

Not likely. The vanilla beans are the fruiting bodies of a tropical
orchid from
Madagascar.

Actually the plant originated in the American tropics.



Really? I was under the impression that Vanilla planifolia is the source
of most commercial vanilla, Mexican and Madagascan, with V. pompona a
secondary one. Both of these, and a few other Vanilla ssp. I've
understood to be from the American tropics. So what else is there?