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Description: This is the orchid that produces the culinary vanilla pods, it grows absolutely huge many metres in length it is a vine type orchid, needs good light to flower and needs to be many metres long and conditions good for it to flower and fruit, you have to hand pollinate the flowers for the pods to develop, it also needs higher humidity.

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