Can this be done with daffodils?
TOKYO (AFP) – Think that red roses are predictable? In Japan, gift-givers soon will also have the
option of blue roses.
Suntory Ltd., also a major whisky distiller, hopes to sell several hundred thousand blue roses a year, company spokesman Kazumasa Nishizaki said.
“As its price may be a bit high, we are targeting demand for luxurious cut flowers, such as for gifts,” he said. The exact price and commercial name for the blue rose have not been decided.
The company is also growing the rose experimentally in Australia and the United States to get approval for sales, but no timing has been set for commercial launches in the two countries.
Suntory in 2004 unveiled the world’s first genetically modified blue rose after 14 years of study which also involved Australian researchers.
It created the flowers by implanting the gene that leads to the synthesis of the blue pigment Delphinidin in pansies. The pigment does not exist naturally in roses.
Clay
Am I the only one that thinks the rose looks purple and not blue?
Kathy
Photography! and then transmitting it on the internet. What a way to mess up color. We all know that from photographing daffodils. :-)
Clay
Hi Kathy,
I agree with you, The Rose looks more on the purple side than blue.
Marilyn
Ah! The color (colour) issue again. Wouldn't it be best just to have flowers labeled with a number, or a range of numbers from an accepted palate such as the RHS has available? PS It looked Lavender to me. Denis Dailey
Denis,
The color issue!!! There are dozens of different colors in daffodil that we call Orange, Red, Pink, etc. If I could find a violet or purple colored daffodil, I’d take it!!! :-)
Clay
Pardon me, and maybe our monitors are showing a different color, but this artist says the color is lavender, not blue. And violet would be even more reddish.
Barbara In Oregon
Recently I made an afghan for my granddaughter; no matter how I took a photo the purple photographed navy blue! So perhaps this is the case; the blue just won’t photograph properly! Phyllis Hess