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Tamarindus indica, the Tamarind tree, is related to carob. It grows wild in its native tropical Africa, but is grown extensively in India, Costa Rica and Thailand for its fruit pods, flowers, leaves and wood. The tamarind tree grows slowly, gets very tall and lives a very long time.
The vanilla as well as the other spices and essential oil crops are cultivated within the tropical rain forest. The vanilla vine is grown on a host tree. The pods are long, slender and cylindrical in shape and filled with thousand of tiny, edible seeds.