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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!

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    I'm not a plant person but I do make my own dyes and pigments from organics. One of the ingredients I use to precipitate the pigment, or as a mordant, which can change the colour, is aluminum sulphate - also used as plant fertilizer to raise soil acidity.

    The chemicals that produce colour in plants are super sensitive to PH, there's a plant based paint company, I think in Europe somewhere, that makes everything from green to red to blue out of just red cabbage.

    I don't know if that's what's happening here, but it is indeed super neat.

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    It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as β€˜blue’ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as I’m concerned that’s pretty blue!

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