Dear Garg ji, Natural Vanilla is indeed extracted from this orchid. However most of the vanilla essence we get in the market is synthetic and is made form wood waste or coaltar. Regards. Yazdy Palia.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:52 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > In a Spice Garden in Ponda area of Goa on 30/9/09. I found it interesting to > know that Vanila is extracted from an Orchid. > > Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_planifolia > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- > Indiantreepix:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
