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 ...

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 ...

Blue fruits get their vibrant color from beneficial plant compounds called polyphenols. In particular, they’re high in anthocyanins, which is a group of polyphenols that give off blue hues (1).

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 ...

Its unique nanoscale layers reflect blue light, helping it attract birds for seed dispersal. Scientists have long believed that truly blue fruits do not exist in nature. Even common "blue" foods such ...

Some fruits shimmer blue not from pigment, but from microscopic layers of fat that bend light — a phenomenon called structural color. The discovery of this rare trait in Lantana strigocamara suggests ...

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, ...