India
Variety of Vanilla · Vanilla planifolia
Bourbon-like flavour from South India - clean, sweet and floral, grown in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Also known as: Indian vanilla, Indien-Vanille
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweetfloralaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Vanilla planifolia, Anbauform der Westghats Südindiens
- Pollination
- dioecious – separate male and female plants
- Fruit weight
- 3 g
Description
Fruit
Pods with a clean, sweet-floral Bourbon-like profile. Quality varies strongly by farm and curing.
Yield
Tropical cultivation in the Western Ghats without a fixed Northern-Hemisphere season.
Notes
Origin form of V. planifolia. Despite state spice research (ICAR-IISR), no officially registered Indian vanilla cultivar exists to date.
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