This is a very beautiful blue color flower. There's a reason the intensely blue orchid flowersyou’ve seen in the floral departments of groceries, box stores and retail plant nurseries don’t look natural.Blue isn’t a natural color in these types oforchids. These are white flowers that get their color froma dye used by plant breeders. “The identity of the dye and the process are patented,” said Ron McHatton, president of the American Orchid Society. Blue is a color that doesn’t occur naturally in orchids very often,” he added.In fact, “blue is a color that is infrequent in nature,” said David Lee, who wrote the book"Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Color"before retiring in 2009 as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University in Miami. “Less than 10 percent of the 280,000 species of flowering plants produce blue flowers,” he said.Why is that? Why is blue seen so infrequently in flowers?“There is no true blue pigment in plants, so plantsdon’t have a direct way of making a blue color,” Lee said. “Blue is even more rare in foliage than itis in flowers.” he added. “Only a handful of understory tropical plants have truly blue foliage.”To make blue flowers, or foliage, plants perform asort of floral trickery with common plant pigments called anthocyanins. Health food devotees will likely be familiar withanthocyaninsbecause cyanidin-3-glucoside is a strong antioxidant, said Lee. “It is the most common anthocyanin in red leaves and red roses and is sold in the health food trade as C3G.”The key ingredients for making blue flowers are the red anthocyanin pigments. “Plants tweak, or modify, the red anthocyanin pigments to make blue flowers,” Lee said. “They do this through a variety of modifications involving pH shifts and mixing of pigments, molecules and ions.An easy, beautiful alpine, Gentiana verna produces intense, bright blue flowers withwhite centers in the spring above its evergreen perennial dark green leaves.............

This is a very beautiful blue color flower. There's a reason the intensely blue orchid flowersyou’ve seen in the floral departments of groceries, box stores and retail plant nurseries don’t look natural.Blue isn’t a natural color in these types oforchids. These are white flowers that get their color froma dye used by plant breeders. “The identity of the dye and the process are patented,” said Ron McHatton, president of the American Orchid Society. Blue is a color that doesn’t occur naturally in orchids very often,” he added.In fact, “blue is a color that is infrequent in nature,” said David Lee, who wrote the book"Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Color"before retiring in 2009 as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University in Miami. “Less than 10 percent of the 280,000 species of flowering plants produce blue flowers,” he said.Why is that? Why is blue seen so infrequently in flowers?“There is no true blue pigment in plants, so plantsdon’t have a direct way of making a blue color,” Lee said. “Blue is even more rare in foliage than itis in flowers.” he added. “Only a handful of understory tropical plants have truly blue foliage.”To make blue flowers, or foliage, plants perform asort of floral trickery with common plant pigments called anthocyanins. Health food devotees will likely be familiar withanthocyaninsbecause cyanidin-3-glucoside is a strong antioxidant, said Lee. “It is the most common anthocyanin in red leaves and red roses and is sold in the health food trade as C3G.”The key ingredients for making blue flowers are the red anthocyanin pigments. “Plants tweak, or modify, the red anthocyanin pigments to make blue flowers,” Lee said. “They do this through a variety of modifications involving pH shifts and mixing of pigments, molecules and ions.An easy, beautiful alpine, Gentiana verna produces intense, bright blue flowers withwhite centers in the spring above its evergreen perennial dark green leaves.............

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Stock photo: This is a very beautiful blue color flower. There's a reason the intensely blue orchid flowersyou’ve seen in the floral departments of groceries, box stores and retail plant nurseries don’t look natural.Blue isn’t a natural color in these types oforchids. These are white flowers that get their color froma dye used by plant breeders. “The identity of the dye and the process are patented,” said Ron McHatton, president of the American Orchid Society. Blue is a color that doesn’t occur naturally in orchids very often,” he added.In fact, “blue is a color that is infrequent in nature,” said David Lee, who wrote the book"Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Color"before retiring in 2009 as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University in Miami. “Less than 10 percent of the 280,000 species of flowering plants produce blue flowers,” he said.Why is that? Why is blue seen so infrequently in flowers?“There is no true blue pigment in plants, so plantsdon’t have a direct way of making a blue color,” Lee said. “Blue is even more rare in foliage than itis in flowers.” he added. “Only a handful of understory tropical plants have truly blue foliage.”To make blue flowers, or foliage, plants perform asort of floral trickery with common plant pigments called anthocyanins. Health food devotees will likely be familiar withanthocyaninsbecause cyanidin-3-glucoside is a strong antioxidant, said Lee. “It is the most common anthocyanin in red leaves and red roses and is sold in the health food trade as C3G.”The key ingredients for making blue flowers are the red anthocyanin pigments. “Plants tweak, or modify, the red anthocyanin pigments to make blue flowers,” Lee said. “They do this through a variety of modifications involving pH shifts and mixing of pigments, molecules and ions.An easy, beautiful alpine, Gentiana verna produces intense, bright blue flowers withwhite centers in the spring above its evergreen perennial dark green leaves............. was taken by nallathambisathiah .