Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. blue sausage fruit pods on tree - guentermanaus/Shutterstock Despite its playful nickname, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the tropical forests of Australia and Southeast Asia grows a tree that might just be the champion of blue fruits. Its name? The blue quandong, or Elaeocarpus angustifolius. It boasts an intense, ...

The idea that a fruit could appear bright, metallic blue without using any pigment sounds impossible. Yet scientists have confirmed that a rare rainforest fruit reflects an intense blue colour even ...

On a beautiful fall day in 2019, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado when something caught her eye: a small, particularly shiny blue fruit, on a shrub known as ...

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 ...

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 ...