Beautiful time-lapse of a cornflower blue (Bachelor's Button), growing from a seed to blossoms. A bachelor button seed was ...

It looks simple - a pretty blue cornflower - but this plant is causing controversy in Austria. It's the chosen flower of the far-right Freedom Party, even though it was once associated with the Nazis.

Packaging red-rose anthocyanin as part of a ‘superpigment’ in another flower turns it brilliant blue. The same anthocyanin pigment makes roses red but cornflowers blue 1, a phenomenon that has so far ...

This shown 30 days of growing a cornflower seed to a young plant.