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Boise State News Ellestad and Raul Manual in front of his vanilla vines in La Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico Vanilla is the world’s second most treasured spice after saffron. Questions surround the vine, a species of orchid that flavors or lends its aroma to everything from ice cream to hand lotion: Where does vanilla grow today? And how can researchers, governments and land managers protect this delicate crop from a changing climate and increasingly competitive and violent demand? Ellestad holds vanilla growing in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico “Since vanilla is so expensive, when the fruits become ripe there’s thievery and murder for it,” said Paige Ellestad, a doctoral student in the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program. “Farmers have to have somebody out in the field watching for weeks before they pick it.” ....
Boise State News March 9, 2021 Paige Ellestad and farmer Raul Manual in front of his vanilla vines in La Chinantla, Oaxaca, Mexico. The Vulnerability of Vanilla Vanilla is the world’s second most treasured spice, after saffron. In 2018, it was valued at $515 per kilogram, nearly the same price as silver. Yet where is this species of orchid (Vanilla planifolia) distributed across the world? Multiple hypotheses of vanilla in the Americas, stemming from a long and varied history of conquest, collection, and cultivation makes the true homeland and the current distribution of vanilla a fuzzy question mark. “It was transported all over the world to be cultivated, but it was propagated clonally,” said Paige Ellestad, a doctoral student in the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program. “So that means that almost all of the vanilla that’s grown in the world is just a clone from one source in Mexico.” ....