Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The quandong’s fruit appear intensely blue, but without ...
Viburnum titus is a common landscaping plant in Europe and the United States, but its blue fruits hadn't been closely studied until now. Photo by Rox Middleton Sometimes, you can find a scientific ...
The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades. Only the berries aren't actually blue in the sense most of ...
Walk through a tropical rainforest, and you quickly notice a pattern in the fruits growing around you. Most are red, orange, ...
Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this type of colour production has been observed in nature. The ...
One local farm has the blues. Not the Chuck Berry kind, the blueberry kind. When it comes to berries, the blues aren’t a bad thing. Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford are co-owners of the Blue Fruit Farm, ...
Banner image: Detail shot of Lantana strigocamara in the Ramaley Greenhouse. (Credit: Patrick Campbell / CU Boulder) On a beautiful fall day in 2019, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl ...
The secret to a blueberry’s hue is in the structure of its wax coat. Blue is not a common color in nature. And while there are some known blue fruits, few contain pigments in that shade. Blueberries, ...
July 14 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the use of a new blue color additive from the gardenia fruit, the fourth coloring from natural sources added in the last two ...
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