The community in Antioquia, Colombia grows Pompona vanilla under agroforestry systems and in the wild, integrating itself in a symbiotic relation with the surrounding nature.  

The vanilla orchid has a great presence in the amazonic jungles of Colombia, however it is rarely commercialy cultivated, despite it has a high market value and despite the south american country has the largest genetic base of vanilla varieties in the world. Colombia also has a successful program of reintroducing aromatic endemic vanilla varities into their exotic natural habitat, such as V. Pompona, V. Karen-Christianae, V. Cribbiana, V. Dreslery and V. Planifolia Jacks, among many other.

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