Moore, Tahitian vanilla, indigenous to Tahiti and cultivated there and in Hawaii. The cylindrical pods are shorter and thicker, being 10 – 17.5 cm long and 2.4 – 3.3 cm in diameter. The lip has a tuft of intricate scales, instead of hairs in the center of the disc. The greenish yellow flowers are larger and more fleshy, with perianth lobes up to 8.5 cm long. fragrans, but the leaves are larger, being 15 - 30 cm long and 5 – 12 cm wide. It is cultivated to a small extent in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Dominica. pompana Schiede, West Indian Vanilla, which occurs wild in southeastern Mexico, Central America, Trinidad and northern South America.
Two other species are occasionally cultivated, but yield an inferior product, they are: planifolia Andrews, Epidendrum vanilla L. The correct name of the commonly cultivated vanilla of commerce is Vanilla fragrans (Salisb) Ames, Syn V. Apart from the large number of ornamental species which are grown for the flowers, vanilla is the only genus which has species of economic importance. They exhibit a wide range of life form and have terrestrial, climbing, epiphytic and saprophytic species. They are perennial herbs which are widely distributed throughout the world with the greatest number in the tropics. The Orchidaceae comprise a very natural, distinctive and highly advanced group of monocotyledons. They belong to the orchid family, Orchidaceae, which is the largest family of flowering plants, with about 700 genera and 20,000 species. Porteres in Bouriquet (1954) describes 110 species of vanilla, distributed in the tropics of both the world and the New World.
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