These shiny gems with iridescent color are not man-made baubles, but real fruits of Pollia condensata that grows in the forests of several African countries. The most intriguing thing about the fruit is that the vibrant blue color retains for years after it has been picked. What's more, a team of researchers from Kew, the University of Cambridge and the Smithsonian Natural History Museum has discovered that the fruit got its color in a rather unusual way:
"The fruit produces its characteristic color through structural coloration, a radically different phenomenon that is well-documented in the animal kingdom but virtually unknown in plants. They determined that the fruit’s tissue is more intensely colored than any previously studied biological tissue—reflecting 30 percent of light, as compared to a silver mirror, making it more intense than even the renowned color of a Morpho butterfly’s wings." +
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