-
Home
-
Vanilla pompona
Vanilla pompona
- Botanic Family
- Orchidaceae
- Author
- Schiede
- Propagation
- C.
Common Names
- West Indian Vanilla
- Baynilla Pompona (Mexico)
- Vainilla Platanillo (Mexico)
- Vainilla Pompona (Mexico)
- Plátano (Mexico)
- Vainilla Cimarrona (Mexico)
- Bania (Mexico)
- Nuguyu or Nejuyu (Mexico)
- Litsmoya (Mexico)
- Vainilla Gruesa (Mexico)
- Vanillon
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Brazil
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Lesser Antilles
- Colima
- Guerrero
- Jalisco
- Michoacán
- Nayarit
- Oaxaca
- Veracruz - Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Tropical forest
- gallery forest
- savanna
- seasonally inundated areas
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Non-woody glabrous herbaceous climber to 16m with aerial roots. Coriaceous fleshy leaves to 300mm x 137mm. 6-20 flowered axillary racemes to 200mm long with bracts to 18mm x 10mm. Fragrant 80mm green-yellow flowers. Sepals greenish-yellow to yellowish-cream, sepals to 90mm x 20mm, petals to 90mm x 20mm, yellow-orange lip to 95mm x 40mm, column to 70mm long. Blackish aromatic seed pods to 180mm x 25mm.
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- net
- VOPR
- The Plant List 2
- Kew
- Lankesteriana
- SAFIO