Organic Vanilla Beans - Sri Lanka

Long coveted for its delicious flavor and tantalizing scent, vanilla beans

has been one of the world's most precious spices for thousands of years.

Our vanilla beans instantly fill the air with a delicious enticing fragrance, reminiscent of one of the seven exotic locales where we source our beans.

he distinctively flavored compounds are found in the fruit, which results from the pollination of the flower.

These seed pods are roughly a third of an inch by six inches, and brownish red to black when ripe.

Inside of these pods is an oily liquid full of tiny seeds.

[20] One flower produces one fruit.

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planifolia flowers are hermaphroditic: They carry both male (anther) and female (stigma) organs; however, to avoid self-pollination, a membrane separates those organs.

The flowers can be naturally pollinated only by bees of the Melipona genus found in Mexico (abeja de monte or mountain bee).

[citation needed] This bee provided Mexico with a 300-year-long monopoly on vanilla production, from the time it was first discovered by Europeans.

The first vanilla orchid to flower in Europe was in the London collection of the Honourable Charles Greville in 1806 - Cuttings from that plant went to Netherlands and Paris, from which the French first transplanted the vines to their overseas colonies.

The vines grew, but would not fruit outside Mexico.

Growers tried to bring this bee into other growing locales, to no avail.

The only way to produce fruits without the bees is artificial pollination.

Today, even in Mexico, hand pollination is used extensively.

Company Contact:

• Posted By: E-Silk Route Ventures (Pvt) Ltd

• Phone: 0094112794160

• Address: 47/2A, 3rd Lane, Buthagamuwa Road, Rajagiriya, Rajagiriya , Western , Sri Lanka

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• Website: https://esilkroute.lk

• Business Description: Our Company was Incorporated with the objective of establishing Strategic trade Routes in the modern business world, Exporting superior quality commodities produced in a locale and Importing essential commodities required.
  
  Being located in Sri Lanka, we are able to supply the World with High-Caliber Spices, Tea, Herbs, Coconut Products and other Agricultural Products; which we specialize in.