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Re:One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla by Finnucane on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:35PM (#17377129)
It is native to Mexico, where it is pollinated by bees. But the bees only live in Mexico. Everywhere else vanilla is grown, it is pollinated by hand. I think even in Mexico, commercial growers use hand pollination.
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