When I was a boy, I remember seeing a film adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (no, not the Disney version; this was a black and white made long before that), in which as a sign of his love the Beast intimidated a rosebush all night until it gave him a blue rose for Beauty–not a purple rose or a kind-of-blue rose, but a true blue rose.
I don’t know whether this is in the book (since I’ve never read it), but apparently the search for a true, blue rose is a major fascination of rose growers.
Now, it is being reported, scientists are on the verge of making one. It turns out that some scientists doing research on liver enzymes found a gene that, it is thought, will turn roses blue once it is inserted into their genetic code.
If it works, I’ll certainly order some.
Soooo cool!!
Have we created black Rose yet?
We don’t at present have a true black rose, though there are some dark roses that have “black” in their names.
Don’t worry, though. We will have black roses by the twenty third century. One of the episodes of Babylon 5 involves a murderer known as “the Black Rose Killer.”
There was also, many years ago, a rather cheesy version of “The Thief of Baghdad” (starring Steve Reeves as Karim, the Thief), in which the hero goes on a quest for a blue rose to save the life of the Sultan’s daughter. It is, nonetheless, one of my favorite movies, with many high spots, such as the splendidly dotty Sultan.
I’m looking for a real blue rose, but i haven’t found one. Is there someone who can tell me where and who have that in there gardens?