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Vanilla inodora

Botanic Family

Orchidaceae

Author

Schiede

Common Names

• Vainilla de Puerco (Mexico)
• Vainilla Cerro Amarillo (Mexico)
• Lombricero
• Vanille Sauvage

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward islands
• Chiapas
• Guerrero
• Jalisco
• Oaxaca
• Puebla
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Florida - U.S.A.
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Wet forest
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• May
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Hemi-epiphytic herbaceous vine to 12m. Hanging leaves with twisted blades to 210mm x 80mm. Axillary or subterminal 3-5 flowered racemes tyo 60mm long with bracts to 12mm x 52mm. Showy fragrant 55mm apple-green to yellow-green & white tepals, white lip with yellow & orange in throat. Dorsal sepal to 50mm x 18mm, lateral sepals to 44mm x 17mm, petals to 47mm x 11mm, trilobed lip to 36mm x 34mm, column to 25mm long. Fruit to 250mm x 8mm.

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• The Plant List 2
• Mobot
• CPC
• Kew
• Lankesteriana
• SAFIO