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Vanilla odorata

Botanic Family

Orchidaceae

Author

C. Presl

Common Names

• West Indian Vanilla
• Inflated Vanilla
• Liane de Guyane Francaise (French)
• Vanillier Sauvage de Guyane Francaise (French)
• Vanil' dushistaia (Russian)
• Ka/.chim-/ba-choa (Cayapa)
• Vainilla Tlatepusco (Mexico)
• Vainilla de Teutila

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Lesser Antilles
• Chiapas
• Oaxaca
• Tobasco
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Is.

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• cloud forest
• coastal
• rain forest
• wet forest
• forest

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov Apr
• May (Ecuador)
• Aug
• Nov (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Aug

Herbaceous hemi-epiphytic high climber to 6m. Leaves to 130mm x 27mm. 6-12-flowered racemes with bracts to 8mm x 5mm of 80mm scented green-yellow to creamy yellow showy flowers. Whitish-green sepals, greenish-white lip, throat striped with pale yellow lines. Dorsal sepal to 54mm x 8.3mm, lateral sepals to 52mm x 9.5mm, petals to 53mm x 7mm, lip to 49mm x 26mm. 200mm x 30mm aromatic green pods

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• net
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• FB
• Kew
• The Plant List 2
• Lankesteriana