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 ...
Slabs of fat help give Viburnum tinus its gleam. By Veronique Greenwood Big, leafy viburnum bushes have lined yards in the United States and Europe for decades — their domes of blossoms have an ...
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 ...
Instead of relying solely on pigments, the metallic blue fruits of Viburnum tinus use structural color to reflect blue light, a mechanism rarely seen in plants. Researchers show that the fruits use ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
That rainbow of fruits sitting in your kitchen isn’t just pretty to look at. The vibrant hues of your apples, berries, and citrus fruits are actually nature’s way of signaling what’s happening beneath ...
There's a reason why blue fruits are so rare: the pigment compounds that make fruits blue are relatively uncommon in nature. But the metallic blue fruits of Viburnum tinus, a popular landscaping plant ...
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