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TOKYO - THINK that red roses are predictable? In Japan, gift-givers soon will also have the option of blue roses.

The Japanese company that created the world's first genetically modified blue roses said on Monday it will start selling them next year.

Suntory, also a major whisky distiller, hopes to sell several hundred thousand blue roses a year, company spokesman Kazumasa Nishizaki said.

'As its price may be a bit high, we are targeting demand for luxurious cut flowers, such as for gifts,' he said. The exact price and commercial name for the blue rose have not been decided.

The company is also growing the rose experimentally in Australia and the United States to get approval for sales, but no timing has been set for commercial launches in the two countries.

Suntory in 2004 unveiled the world's first genetically modified blue rose after 14 years of study which also involved Australian researchers.

It created the flowers by implanting the gene that leads to the synthesis of the blue pigment Delphinidin in pansies. The pigment does not exist naturally in roses. -- AFP

Aguy, naa na gyud Blue roses si Germz nimo Aya san...

dili na gyud ni ang pinintalan ha?

true na gyud ni sha...

pretty kaajo!

kanindto sa flower oi. breathtaking kaayo ang beauty.

thanks for the blue rose jappy hahahaha(u know that)
bsan ala ka moingon para na nako, angkonon ko nalang daan

ops, the first in the World ang Japan? why we have darkblue-rose dre?
and im pretty sure dli gi-sprayhan..its a hybrid-combi rose plants daw

Gi sprayhan na sha Blue... or hybrid tingali but they never had produced the real all blue yet.

Japan did it first!

well, thanks if thats the case hehehehe

no updates c Eya, i kept on buying those blue roses

ky ma shuang jud ko magtan-aw, thought its real

ky maka ilad jud ug porma, honest

you made me curious, tomorrow i will go to Flower Shops

and "lokilok" da dad-an nako magnifying lens