Baker, or gardener, growing a vanilla bean orchid indoors needs no better excuse than the mere fact that this exotic, beautiful, and fragrant orchid will bring delight to your indoor space.

Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...

The species were recorded in the Canandé Biological Reserve in the Chocó-Darién rainforest, according to the study. Photo from Hernández Hernández, de Oliveira, Diaz-Guevara, Alarcón-Ortiz ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots launched traps scented with vanilla, clove, wintergreen and eucalyptus up into the tree canopy, hoping to ...