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Vanilla comes from an orchid.

It's made from the seed pods of orchids in the genus Vanilla. Commercial farms pollinate the flowers by hand, which helps make vanilla the second most expensive spice by weight, after saffron.

Source: Wikipedia: Vanilla

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