Edmund Albius
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Edmund Albius, 12-year-old who developed hand-pollination method
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Most Relaxing Facts About Food to Fall Asleep To 🍞 | ... · 1:16:45 · 8 Jul
…In 1841, on the French colonial island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, a 12-year-old enslaved boy named Edmund Albius discovered that vanilla flowers could be pollinated by hand using a simple tool, a small stick or stiff grass blade to lift the rostellum flap and transfer pollen from the anther to the stigma in a process that took only a few seconds per fl…
Jessica BadalanaThings Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast · Vanilla: Boring or the Best? with Claire Saffitz · 3:50 · 13 Apr
…So there was an enslaved, I was going to say man, but really a child, a 12-year-old, Edmund Albius, and he worked on a plantation on the island of Réunion.…
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