Vanilla planifolia

Native Range

Native Continent

Northern America, Southern America

Northern America

Mexico, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave,

Southern America

Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Martinique, United States, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil, Espírito Santo, Colombia, Ecuador,

Natural Habitat

An epiphytic plant, it grows wild in trees, producing aerial roots that penetrate fissures and cracks in the bark. Usually found climbing on trees in warm, wet tropical low land forests at elevations from sea-level to 600 metres.