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Most commercial vanilla flowers are pollinated by hand, one blossom at a time.
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Includes A coffee cherry usually holds two seeds, but around one in ten contains a single rounded seed known as a peaberry., Black, green and white peppercorns all come from the same vine, Piper nigrum; they differ only in when they are picked and how they are processed., Cashews are never sold in their shells, because the shell contains an irritating oil chemically related to the one in poison ivy., Green, black, white and oolong teas all come from the leaves of one plant, Camellia sinensis; processing makes the difference., Most commercial vanilla flowers are pollinated by hand, one blossom at a time., Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world's people. and more.
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