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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Have you recently or in the past taken a trip to a tropical destination and left the place thinking, “Man… I wish I could grow plants like these back home.” ...

Unlike most plants, B. pavonina has evolved iridescent blue leaves. This is due to its unusual chloroplasts, known as iridoplasts, which are located within its surface layers.

The leaves of the Malaysian tropical plant Begonia pavonina, also known as peacock begonia, have a curiously odd shade-metallic blue. Now, researchers reveal that its blue sheen helps this plant ...

Whitney and her colleagues describe the blue leaves today in the journal Nature Plants. "Here we see evidence of a plant that's actually evolved to physically manipulate the little light it receives." ...