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In Singapore: Leafless Vanilla (Grown in Singapore)
Vanilla aphylla is a leafless, fleshy-stemmed vanilla orchid vine from Southeast Asia that climbs by its roots and lives largely as a mycoheterotroph, so it is rarely grown in cultivation. Care information is sparse because it is a wild species rather than a common garden plant.
Vanilla aphylla is a species of vanilla orchid. It is native to Southeast Asia. It is found throughout Southeast Asia including; Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Like all members of the genus Vanilla, V. aphylla is a vine. It uses its fleshy roots to support itself as it grows.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vanilla aphylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
