A Japanese whiskey distillery and brewery has announced the first commercially available blue roses. The company says that the roses are implanted with a blue colour gene from pansies. The roses have been named Suntory blue rose Applause, and will sell for between 2,000 and 3,000 yen a stem in Japan, available from 3 November. They are also fragrant.
Suntory collaborated with Australian biotechnology company Florigene since the early 1990s to find a way to create blue roses. The company has no plans to market them abroad.
Posted by Sean Ecker on 20 October 2009 at 15:10 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 20 October 2009.
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Tags: blue rose, brewery, distillery, Florigene, Suntory, Suntory blue rose Applause, whiskey
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October 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Those aren’t blue. Lavender maybe.