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What gives this metallic blue fruit its colour?

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Metallic blue fruits use fat to produce colour and signal a treat for birds.
Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this type of colour production has been observed in nature.



https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/group/vignolini/index

Rox Middleton et al. ‘Viburnum tinus Fruits Use Lipid to produce Metallic Blue Structural Colour.’ Current Biology (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.005
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