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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 ...
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 ...
The African berry Pollia condensata achieves a brilliant, metallic blue without pigments, using microscopic structures that manipulate light. This phenomenon, known as structural colour, creates a ...
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