Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? This question makes me smile because they are both. The same can be said of cucumbers, ...

flattening the anther sac and the stigma of the orchid blossom with his finger and thumb, and that is still used today, all over the world, to pollinate vanilla orchids manually and produce large ...

Why orchids have evolved sexual mimicry for pollination is open for debate. Plants that are farther away from each other are more likely to be distant relatives, so mimicry may reduce inbreeding.

Vanilla beans are the fruit of the vanilla orchid, a tropical climbing plant ... and Tahiti. After pollination, the beans require months of meticulous care and up to a year to harvest, which ...