Tuesday, 3 June 2014
The rainbow rose
is a rose which has had its petals artificially colored. The method exploits
the rose's natural processes by which water is drawn up the stem. By splitting
the stem and dipping each part in different colored water, the colors are drawn
into the petals resulting in a multicolored rose. With these changes to the
rose, it causes them to not live as long as an uncolored rose. Besides roses, other cut flowers like the chrysanthemum,
carnation, hydrangea and some species of orchids can also be colored using the
same method. Source
