Despite its playful nickname, the "blue sausage fruit" has nothing to do with meat. Known as Decaisnea fargesii, it is a shrub found in mountain forests and shaded ravines stretching across western ...

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 ...

Walk through a tropical rainforest, and you quickly notice a pattern in the fruits growing around you. Most are red, orange, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...