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Is there a blue carnation

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In nature or plant breeding you can never get a blue carnation because the plant not have the gene for making the pigment delphinidin. However, around 1996, Florigene (Australia) genetically engineered a carnation by implanting genes from petunia and snapdragon to produce a blue-mauve carnation. This is called Ornamental Bioscience. There have been 5 of these flowers commercially produced. The early ones were named Moondust and Moonshadow.

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