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 ...
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 ...
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This stunning 'blue marble' fruit isn't actually blue – it's a wild optical illusion
The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades. Only the berries aren't actually blue in the sense most of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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