Slabs of fat help give Viburnum tinus its gleam. By Veronique Greenwood Big, leafy viburnum bushes have lined yards in the United States and Europe for decades — their domes of blossoms have an ...

There's a reason why blue fruits are so rare: the pigment compounds that make fruits blue are relatively uncommon in nature. But the metallic blue fruits of Viburnum tinus, a popular landscaping plant ...

Viburnums have shown up on many a gardener's radar these past few years, most notably the evergreen V. tinus and the deciduous V. plicatum and V. opulus. Viburnums are great landscape shrubs - ...

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. The ...

Every season brings new mysteries as well as its delights. A couple of years ago it was the exceptional spring flowering of that common shrub the laurustinus, Viburnum tinus. The bushes were as ...

There's a reason why blue fruits are so rare: the pigment compounds that make fruits blue are relatively uncommon in nature. But the metallic blue fruits of Viburnum tinus, a popular landscaping plant ...

Every season brings new mysteries as well as its delights. A couple of years ago it was the exceptional spring flowering of that common shrub the laurustinus, Viburnum tinus. The bushes were as ...

Instead of relying solely on pigments, the metallic blue fruits of Viburnum tinus use structural color to reflect blue light, a mechanism rarely seen in plants. Researchers show that the fruits use ...