When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Beautiful and fragrant blue petunias get their unusual color from a molecular defect in the ...
Butterfly pea, also known as aparajita in India, grows as a vine and has a striking blue flower. Around two years ago, Brahma ...
Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge roses and ...
Latest research has found that several common flower species have nanoscale ridges on the surface of their petals that meddle with light when viewed from certain angles. These nanostructures scatter ...
Many gardeners already know to plant blue flowers in their gardens to bring in bumblebees. But scientists have found a new set of bee-friendly plants which have a special glow we cannot see. These ...
A woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, from the Edo Period, about 1800-05, titled 'Express Delivery Boats Rowing through Waves (Oshiokuri hatô tsûsen no zu),' from an untitled series of landscapes ...
Beautiful and fragrant blue petunias get their unusual color from a molecular defect in the system that controls the acidity of the plants' cells. A new study reveals this defect in full, solving the ...
Latest research has found that several common flower species have nanoscale ridges on the surface of their petals that meddle with light when viewed from certain angles. Latest research has found that ...
Roses are red, violets are blue. Except they’re not. They’re, er, violet. True blue flowers are exceedingly rare, and not for lack of effort. Plant breeders have repeatedly tried to nudge roses and ...