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On Edmond Albius, the Enslaved Man Who Pioneered the Pollination of Vanilla
Ferréol Bellier-Beaumont recounts the 1841 eureka moment—when a vanilla plant was first manually pollinated—as follows: One day as I walked with my faithful companion, I noticed that my only vanilla plant had produced a […] bean. I expressed surprise and
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