Blue - Blue in Nature

Blue in Nature

  • Lactarius indigo, or the blue milk mushroom

  • Cornflower

  • Myosotis, or Forget-me-not

  • Blue seeds of the Ravenala tree from Madagascar

  • The Morpho peleides butterfly. The blue is caused by iridescence, the diffraction of light from millions of tiny scales on the wings. The colour is intended to frighten predators.

  • River kingfisher

  • Linckia Blue starfish

  • Blue sapphire, a gemstone of the mineral corundum. Trace amounts of iron colour it blue; if there are traces of chromium instead, it has a red tint and is called a ruby.

  • Dried crystals of copper sulphate

  • Blueberries

  • Dendrobates azureus, the poison dart frog from Brazil. Its skin contains alkaloids which can paralyze or kill predators.

  • Blue Jay

  • A blue whale, the largest known animal to have ever existed, seen from above. The back is a pale blue grey.

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Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or nature:

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
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    “If from the earth we came, it was an earth
    That bore us as a part of all the things
    It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
    Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
    Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
    The same. We parallel the mother’s death.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)