The vanilla grows in the undergrowth of the humid rainforests.

She was already reproduced, by cutting, long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores to Mexico.
The first written reference and illustrations of the vanilla, appear in the Pharmacopoeia Badianus written by the Aztec doctors Martinus de la Cruz and Juannes Badiano.
Until the 19th century, all tries to make produce this orchid out of its natural origin aerie ended in chess.
They were unaware, indeed that the indigenous honeybees, played a fertilising role necessary to the forming of the fruit.
The vanilla provoked a true infatuation in Europe. It was notably very appreciated in the court of France.
Louis xiv decided to try to introduce the creeper in the ile Bourbon (current ile of Meeting). Various tries accomplished under his reign failed.

The first artificial pollination was accomplished in 1836 in the botanical gardens of Liege by the Belgian Charles Morren.
It is in 1841 when a slave, known of Edmund's forename created the practical technique still used at present.
To the abrogation of slavery in 1848, in recognition, the patronymic of Albius is given to the young person,
in reference to the white colour of the vanilla flower (In Latin, WHITE claims to be ALBIUS, to be ALBI)

It is the planters who introduced by 1880 the culture of the vanilla into the oriental regions of Madagascar, those of ANTALAHA and of SAMBAVA,

in favourable humid climate. Infatuation is quick and malagasy production exceeds 1000 tons in 1929, that is more than 10 times that of Meeting.
In spite of the competition of other countries as Indonesia, Madagascar keeps widely its rank of first worldwide exporter.
Madagascar produces the world 60 % vanillas in.