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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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Q: We have 5.5 acres with several hundred white pines, 7 blue spruce, and 2 red pines. Several of the blue spruce are dying. Several years ago, two started dying from the bottom up. We put evergreen ...

As a cadre of Maine foresters and ecologists shuffled down the sun-baked roads of Surry Forest on Wednesday they were faced with the same sweltering heat they are trying to prepare Maine’s coastal ...

Blue Stripes sells juice drinks and fruit snacks made of the fruit’s pulp, and whole-cacao trail mixes, granolas, and chocolate products, on Amazon and in premium grocery stores like Whole Foods ...