I pulled aside the straw today from one larger plant that's staring to flower, and there were a couple of stolons starting to run. They got a slow start, but they're on their way. I planted the early potatoes that I'm growing for new ones along the edge of the bed so I can easily reach in and nab them.
Where does vanilla come from? A: Vanilla comes from the bean of a specific type of orchid. Of the 35,000 orchid species native to the rainforests of Central and South America, only the fruit of the vanilla orchid, whose scientific name is Vanilla planifolia, is actually edible. Continue Reading.
Beans from the Coffea robusta plant are collectively known as robusta; these are cheaper, lower-quality beans that are higher in caffeine and have a more bitter taste (and are cheaper to produce as well). The other beans come from the Coffea arabica plant, and are known generally as arabica.offee has obviously proved its popularity time and time again in this country, but how many people are familiar with where their coffee comes from? There are two main kinds of Coffea (a fancy scientific name for the coffee plant) from which the magical coffee bean emerges, and each grow a different quality of coffee.