For years, photographs have circulated purporting to show the rare and little-known "blue strawberry":
These images are frequently accompanied by a sales pitch for blue strawberry seeds, and a promise that those seeds will grow into a blue fruit similar to the ones shown above. Here's one such listing from the web site "New Chic":
Blue strawberries are new varieties of strawberries that is developed by Japan
Why don't give yourself a chance to watch it grow?
You plant it like ordinary strawberry and you'll gain extraordinary one.
No matter what seeds you plant, however, they will not grow into a blue strawberry plant. All of these images started out as photographs of regular old red strawberries before they were digitally altered to appear blue:
These "blue strawberry" images have also been attached to a rumor that they were genetically modified by scientists in order to create a freeze-resistant strawberry:
They're doing it by artificial transfer of genes from a species of fish called the Arctic Flounder Fish. The Arctic Flounder Fish produces an anti-freeze that allows it to protect himself in freezing waters.They isolated the gene that produces this anti-freeze and introduced it
They isolated the gene that produces this anti-freeze and introduced it to the strawberry. The result is a strawberry that looks blue and doesn't turn to mush or degrade after being placed in the freezer. While they're not in production, research is ongoing. Would you eat blue strawberries?
