A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 25, 2020, Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Odd Hues: The Method Behind The Shiny Blue Fruit Of a Viburnum Bush.

To learn more about Blue Skies and Ruth Smith-Adjei’s leadership success, you can attend the HACSA Sankofa Virtual Summit 2021 July 3rd-5th. Registration is now open on the HACSA website.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new blue color additive derived from the fruit of the gardenia, a flowering evergreen, for use in a variety of drinks and candies.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the use of a new blue color additive from the gardenia fruit the fourth coloring from natural sources added in the last two months.

Fruit’s metallic blue caused by lipid nanostructures Berries could use the color to advertise their nutritional benefits to birds by Laura Howes August 6, 2020 3 min read Share ...

Researchers with the University of Maine are studying how best to manage coastal spruce forests under intensifying heat and drought.

Blue spruce has a dislike for standing water and/or high-soluble salts. I'll bet the soluble salts in that area are very high and will keep the trees from developing normally.

Regarding the residential use of blue spruce, author and naturalist Donald Culross Peattie remarked that, “as a hedge, it is so close growing and cruelly prickly as to be boy-proof and is indeed ...