How a 12-year-old on Réunion made vanilla a global crop
Vanilla rarely fruited outside Mexico until 1841, when Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old enslaved boy on Réunion, found a way to pollinate its flowers by hand.
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Vanilla rarely fruited outside Mexico until 1841, when Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old enslaved boy on Réunion, found a way to pollinate its flowers by hand.