Blue butterfly pea is a perennial tropical vine known for its striking, vibrant blue flowers. It has an interesting botanical name, Clitoria ternatea, because the flower’s shape resembles a human ...

Roses are red, violets are blue, but people want blue roses! In the industry of floriculture, the cut blue flower is a coveted product. So much so, that according to the Institute of of Vegetable and ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that ...

In nature, blue is much rarer than you might think. Sure, the sky is blue when the weather’s nice, and so is the ocean. But the vast majority of plants and animals are incapable of making blue pigment ...

Research shows hummingbirds love red flowers, but they also love anything bright and tubular. Blue-blooming sages are popular food plants for flitting visitors.

Blue is remarkably rare in nature because true blue pigments are almost non-existent in living organisms. Instead, most natural blue results from structural coloration, where microscopic arrangements ...

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

A bit of imperfection could be perfect for flowers creating a “blue halo” effect that bees can see. At least a dozen families of flowering plants, from hibiscuses to daisy relatives, have a species or ...

Roses are red, but science could someday turn them blue. That’s one of the possible future applications of a technique researchers have used to genetically engineer blue chrysanthemums for the first ...