We are proud to present you our latest exclusive natural products :
Here at Red Island Treasures our priority is to bring to our customer rare and amazing natural products from Madagascar. We believe in the richness of our country and express it by showcasing to the world some of the most sought-after natural products from Madagascar.
Quartz with fluorite inclusions
RED ISLAND TREASURES is proud to bring to you a collection of quartz with blue fluorite inclusions. These sought-after minerals are from a private collection from the original mine in Madagascar. The product is very rare since deposits are now exhausted, therefore there will not be any more production of these specimens. Professional cut and polish. Beautiful fluorite inclusions are a perfect example of the incredible natural products that can be found in Malagasy soil. Very few items left !
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High grade Malagasy vanilla
“Premium Bourbon vanilla is to other vanilla what Champagne is to sparkling wine”
From its origins in South America Vanilla Planifolia has been the subject of numerous myths & legends. It’s arrival in Europe, imported by the Spanish conquistadors did nothing to still this. For centuries men tried to cultivate it, but it guarded it’s secret well and modern day Mexico was the only source of this exquisitely perfumed spice. This was until a young slave Edmond Albius discovered its secret in on the island of Reunion in 1841.
In it’s native South American environment the Vanilla Planifolia is pollinated by a bee spreading the pollen to the plants stigma. Without the intervention of the bee, attempts to grow vanilla pods outside their native South America failed. The vine flowers but for one day a year and is self fertile, on this day for fertilisation to occur the pollen must be transferred from the anther to the stigma. On the vanilla flower this was complicated by a rostellum (referred to by the Artisans as the ‘Mother in Law’!) separating the two, thus making pollination impossible without a third party intervention. Young Edmond discovered that by pushing the rostellum back with a piece of wood and touching the anther to the stigma he could do the bees job. This method is still used to day. Was Edmond rewarded for this discovery that created an industry ? Hardly!
We hope you enjoy the aroma & flavour of these premium grade pods as much we do.
