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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bright blue berries The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic ...

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, ...

Walk through a tropical rainforest, and you quickly notice a pattern in the fruits growing around you. Most are red, orange, purple, or sometimes nearly black. Blue fruits appear to exist, but ...

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 ...

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 ...