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The world\u2019s first blue daffodil<\/a>, 10 years in the making, is finally in flower, Gardens Illustrated<\/em> can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n Blue daffodils do not exist in the wild, so this new cultivar, named Narcissus<\/em> \u2018Poisson d\u2019avril\u2019 has been genetically engineered at a top secret location in Wales. Two genes that conflict with each other were added to the UK\u2019s native wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus<\/em>, including one for the blue plant pigment delphinidin.<\/span><\/p>\n Narcissus<\/em> \u2018Poisson d\u2019Avril\u2019 reaches 20cm high and has a long, thin trumpet and flared petals petals that contrast with the grey-green foliage. It flowers slightly later than many daffodils, making it a good companion for late spring bulbs such as tulips<\/a>. It has an exceptionally long vase life, which means that it makes an excellent cut flower<\/a>.<\/p>\n The bulbs will now be propagated by a specialist process known as twinscaling<\/a> and it is hoped that a limited number of blue daffodil bulbs will be available to buy by 2030. It is thought that they will fetch high prices, much as new and rare snowdrops do \u2013 a single snowdrop bulb recently sold for \u00a31,850<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cDaffodils will become the new snowdrops,\u201d predicts head scientist Dr Rub Isch. \u201cWe did some research ahead of the colour change and discovered that most people don\u2019t like yellow daffodils anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Veronica Peerless Published: Friday, 01 April 2022 at 12:00 am The world\u2019s first blue daffodil, 10 years in the making, is finally in flower, Gardens Illustrated can exclusively reveal. Blue daffodils do not exist in the wild, so this new cultivar, named Narcissus \u2018Poisson d\u2019avril\u2019 has been genetically engineered at a top secret location […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9239,"template":"","categories":[1,48],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers.jpg",1546,1278,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers-300x248.jpg",300,248,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers-768x635.jpg",768,635,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers-1024x846.jpg",800,661,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers-1536x1270.jpg",1536,1270,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/04\/worlds-first-blue-daffodil-finally-flowers.jpg",1546,1278,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Veronica Peerless Published: Friday, 01 April 2022 at 12:00 am The world\u2019s first blue daffodil, 10 years in the making, is finally in flower, Gardens Illustrated can exclusively reveal. Blue daffodils do not exist in the wild, so this new cultivar, named Narcissus \u2018Poisson d\u2019avril\u2019 has been genetically engineered at a top secret location…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/9238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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