Uganda
Variety of Vanilla · Vanilla planifolia
Bold equatorial vanilla with very high vanillin content - a growing alternative to Madagascar thanks to two harvests a year.
Also known as: Ugandan vanilla, Uganda-Vanille
🇺🇬 UG
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweetfloralaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Vanilla planifolia, äquatoriale Anbauform Ostafrikas
- Pollination
- dioecious – separate male and female plants
- Fruit weight
- 3 g
Description
Fruit
Robust, dark pods, often with especially high vanillin; chocolatey, woody-rounded flavour notes.
Yield
Equatorial climate without a fixed season - Uganda allows two harvests per year. No fixed Northern-Hemisphere harvest month.
Notes
Origin form of V. planifolia, not a named clone. High share of A-grade pods.
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